Lesions to Broca's Area resulted primarily in disruptions to speech production.

Broca's Area is today still considered an important language center, playing a central role in processing syntax, grammar, and sentence structure.

* Area 44-pars opercularis, part of Broca's area

* Area 45-pars triangularis Broca's area

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* Broca's Area

Commonly known as " Broca's Area ", persons with damage in this region often have non-fluent aphasia.

The most famous case of this was Paul Broca's patient Leborgne, nicknamed " Tan ", after the only syllable he could say.

One of the most important aspects of Paul Broca's discovery was the observation that the loss of proper speech in expressive aphasia is due to the brain's loss of ability to produce language, as opposed to the mouth's loss of ability to produce words.

At the time, Broca's findings were seen as a confirmation of Franz Joseph Gall's theory that language was localized and that certain psychological functions were localized in specific areas of the cerebral cortex.

Another interesting finding is that the region, which was once considered to be critical for speech by Broca, is not precisely the same region as what is now known as Broca's area.

For a long time, it was assumed that the role of Broca's area was more devoted to language production than language comprehension.

It was later discovered that the man had damage to an area of his left frontal lobe now known as Broca's area.

In the past it was theorized that language abilities are localized in the left hemisphere in areas 44 / 45, the Broca's area, for language expression and area 22, the Wernicke's area, for language reception.

One of the first people to draw a connection between a particular brain area and language processing was Paul Broca, a French surgeon who conducted autopsies on numerous individuals who had speaking deficiencies, and found that most of them had brain damage ( or lesions ) on the left frontal lobe, in an area now known as Broca's area.

Phrenologists had made the claim in the early 19th century that different brain regions carried out different functions and that language was mostly controlled by the frontal regions of the brain, but Broca's research was possibly the first to offer empirical evidence for such a relationship, and has been described as " epoch-making " and " pivotal " to the fields of neurolinguistics and cognitive science.

The controversy was epitomized with the existence of a language area in the brain, nowadays known as the Broca's area.

Similarly, Paul Broca's 1861 post mortem study of an aphasic patient, known as " Tan " after the only word which he could speak, showed that an area of the left frontal lobe was damaged.

From this he concluded that the function of speech was probably localized in the inferior frontal gyrus of the left hemisphere of the brain, an area now known as Broca's area.

The neuroscientist Katrin Amunts studied the brain of Emil Krebs and determined that the area of Krebs ' brain responsible for language — Broca's area — was organized differently than in monolinguals.

de Broca's most recent hit was Le Bossu ( 1997 ).

Rudenko was a follower of Paul Broca's " French School " of anthropology.

The first language area within the left hemisphere to be discovered is Broca's area, named after Paul Broca, who discovered the area while studying patients with aphasia, a language disorder.

Location of two brain areas that play a critical role in language, Broca's area and Wernicke's area

Studies of chronic aphasia have implicated an essential role of Broca's area in various speech and language functions.

The essential role of the Broca's area in speech production has been questioned since it can be destroyed while leaving language nearly intact.

However, recent evidence demonstrates that Broca's area also plays a significant role in language comprehension.

Observation of meaningful hand shadows resembling moving animals activates frontal language area, demonstrating that Broca's area indeed plays a role in interpreting action of others.

After the show closed, she travelled to France where she played the lead role in French director Philippe de Broca's Les 1001 Nuits, her feature film debut.

Wernicke's area, which spans the region between temporal and parietal lobes, plays a key role ( in tandem with Broca's area, which is in the frontal lobe ).

The role of ventral peri-Rolandic cortices in speech motor functions has long been appreciated ( Broca's area ).

The essential role of Broca's area in imitation.

Given its bidirectional connection between the Broca's and Wernicke's speech areas it could have a role in language.

The term language center ( or more accurately centers, e. g. Broca's area and Wernicke's area ) refers to the areas of the brain which serve a particular function for speech processing and production.

The differentiation of speech production into only two large sections of the brain ( i. e. Broca's and Wernicke's areas ), accepted long before the advent of medical imaging techniques, is now considered outdated.

This together with other aspects of speech involves the neural activity of parts of the human brain such as the Wernicke's and Broca's areas.

The activation during verbal working memory tasks can be broken down into one component reflecting maintenance, in the left posterior parietal cortex, and a component reflecting subvocal rehearsal, in the left frontal cortex ( Broca's area, known to be involved in speech production ).

Broca's area is a region of the hominid brain with functions linked to speech production.

However, slow destruction of the Broca's area by brain tumors can leave speech relatively intact suggesting its functions can shift to nearby areas in the brain.

First, the MRI findings suggest that other areas besides Broca's area may also have contributed to the patients ' reduced productive speech.

This finding is significant because it has been found that, though lesions to Broca's area alone can possibly cause temporary speech disruption, they do not result in severe speech arrest.

Patients with lesions in Broca's area who exhibit agrammatical speech production also show inability to use syntactic information to determine the meaning of sentences.

Some linguistic structures in the speech of a Broca's aphasic.

Broca is most famous for his discovery of the speech production center of the brain located in the ventroposterior region of the frontal lobes ( now known as Broca's area ).

The discovery of Broca's area revolutionized the understanding of language processing, speech production, and comprehension, as well as what effects damage to this area may cause.

Later, Carl Wernicke, after whom Wernicke's area is named, proposed that different areas of the brain were specialized for different linguistic tasks, with Broca's area handling the motor production of speech, and Wernicke's area handling auditory speech comprehension.

Wilson, Parsons, & Reutens looked at the effect of melodic intonation therapy ( MIT ) on speech production in a male singer with severe Broca's aphasia.

Gesture processing takes place in areas of the brain such as Broca's and Wernicke's areas, which are used by speech and sign language.

Gestures are processed in the same areas of the brain as speech and sign language such as the left inferior frontal gyrus ( Broca's area ) and the posterior middle temporal gyrus, posterior superior temporal sulcus and superior temporal gyrus ( Wernicke's area ).