neuroanatomy Neuroanatomy is the study of the structure and organization of the nervous system. In contrast to animals with radial symmetry, whose nervous system consists of a distributed network of cells, animals with bilateral symmetry have segregated, defi ...

, the centrum semiovale, semioval center or centrum ovale is the central area of

white matter White matter refers to areas of the central nervous system that are mainly made up of myelinated axons, also called Nerve tract, tracts. Long thought to be passive tissue, white matter affects learning and brain functions, modulating the distr ...

found underneath the

cerebral cortex The cerebral cortex, also known as the cerebral mantle, is the outer layer of neural tissue of the cerebrum of the brain in humans and other mammals. It is the largest site of Neuron, neural integration in the central nervous system, and plays ...

. The white matter, located in each hemisphere between the

and nuclei, as a whole has a semioval shape. It consists of cortical projection fibers, association fibers and cortical fibers. It continues ventrally as the corona radiata.

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* http://www.anatomyatlases.org/MicroscopicAnatomy/Section17/Plate17351.shtml * http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/cases/caseB/054t_2.gif * https://web.archive.org/web/20071114074658/http://www.dartmouth.edu/~btharris/Case_of_Quarter/Case_4/case_4_home.htm (see figure 4) Cerebral white matter {{Portal bar, Anatomy