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They are called sulci (singular - sulcus). These are folds of the brain designed to give it more surface area.
For a reasonable layman's definition of sulci, the Wikipedia article for 'Sulcus (neuroanatomy)' gives an introduction.
(I'm a neuroscience student.)
The brain uses the surface area to store information. This area is finite in size and when a person is born, its smoothe. As you age you need more space to store information and the brain makes ridges and valleys on the surface, thereby adding more pages for the book where we store memory.
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