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Which part of the cerebral cortex receives smell information from the olfactory tract?
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olfactory system
Sagittal view of the human nasal cavity.
The olfactory tract distributes its fibers primarily to the cortex of the pyriform lobe (also referred to as the piriform cortex), which serves as the final cortical receiving area for olfactory information. In humans, this region corresponds to the uncus of the hippocampal gyrus. A smaller number of fibers from the olfactory tract also terminate in the olfactory tubercle and the medial part of the amygdaloid complex.1