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  2. Broca's area - Wikipedia

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    Broca's area, or the Broca area (/ ˈ b r oʊ k ə /, [1] [2] [3] also UK: / ˈ b r ɒ k ə /, US: / ˈ b r oʊ k ɑː / [4]), is a region in the frontal lobe of the dominant hemisphere, usually the left, of the brain [5] with functions linked to speech production. Language processing has been linked to Broca's area since Pierre Paul Broca ...

  3. Sign language in the brain - Wikipedia

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    In 1861, Paul Broca studied patients with the ability to understand spoken languages but the inability to produce them. The damaged area was named Broca's area, and located in the left hemisphere’s inferior frontal gyrus (Brodmann areas 44, 45). Soon after, in 1874, Carl Wernicke studied patients with the reverse deficits: patients could ...

  4. Lateralization of brain function - Wikipedia

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    Broca's aphasia is a specific type of expressive aphasia and is so named due to the aphasia that results from damage or lesions to the Broca's area of the brain, that exists most commonly in the left inferior frontal hemisphere. Thus, the aphasia that develops from the lack of functioning of the Broca's area is an expressive and non-fluent aphasia.

  5. List of regions in the human brain - Wikipedia

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    3.2 Telencephalon (cerebrum) Cerebral hemispheres. 3.2.1 White matter. 3.2.2 Subcortical. 3.2.3 Rhinencephalon ... Diagonal band of Broca; Septal nuclei. Medial ...

  6. Neuroanatomy of handedness - Wikipedia

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    The human brain's control of motor function is a mirror image in terms of connectivity; the left hemisphere controls the right hand and vice versa. This theoretically means that the hemisphere contralateral to the dominant hand tends to be more dominant than the ipsilateral hemisphere, however this is not always the case [ 2 ] and there are ...

  7. Inferior frontal gyrus - Wikipedia

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    Most language processing takes place in Broca's area usually in the left hemisphere. [9] Damage to this region often results in a type of non-fluent aphasia known as Broca's aphasia. Broca's area is made up of the pars opercularis and the pars triangularis, both of which contribute to verbal fluency, but each has its own specific contribution.

  8. Language center - Wikipedia

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    Paul Broca had a patient called Leborgne who could only pronounce the word "tan" when speaking. After working with another patient with a similar impairment, Paul Broca concluded that damage in the inferior frontal gyrus affected articulate language. [2] Broca's area is well known for being the syntactic processing "center". [2]

  9. Brain asymmetry - Wikipedia

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    Broca's area is located in the left hemisphere prefrontal cortex above the cingulate gyrus in the third frontal convolution. [16] Broca's area was discovered by Paul Broca in 1865. This area handles speech production. Damage to this area would result in Broca aphasia which causes the patient to become unable to formulate coherent appropriate ...