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Cerebral Cortex

The Cerebral cortex is the extensive outer layer of gray matter of the cerebral hemispheres, largely responsible for higher brain functions, including sensation, voluntary muscle movement, thought, reasoning, and memory. The human brain's wrinkled texture results in substantially more cortex than is present in other brains of similar size.

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