Usually means: Brain's outer layer; processes information.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (cerebral cortex)

noun:  (neuroanatomy) The grey, folded, outermost layer of the cerebrum that is responsible for higher brain processes such as sensation, voluntary muscle movement, thought, reasoning, and memory.

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