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WHAT

IS IT?

BROCA'S AREA

BROCA'S AREA

WHAT

IS IT?

  • IT IS A REGION IN THE FRONTAL LOBE OF THE BRAIN WITH FUNCTIONS LINKED TO SPEECH PRODUCTION.
  • BROCA'S AREA IS NOW TYPICALLY DEFINED IN TERMS OF THE PARS OPERCULARIS AND PARS TRIANGULARIS OF THE INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS, REPRESENTED IN BRODMANN'S CYTOARCHITECTONIC MAP AS BRODMANN AREA 44 AND 45.

PIERRE PAUL BROCA

PAUL BROCA

  • A FRENCH PHYSICIAN, ANATOMIST AND ANTROPOLOGIST.
  • HE IS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS RESEARCH ON BROCA'S AREA.
  • HIS WORK REVEALED THAT THE BRAINS OF PATIENTS WITH APHASIA CONTAINED LESIONS IN A PARTICULAR PART OF THE CORTEX.

FUNCTIONS OF THE BROCA'S AREA

FUNCTIONS

  • LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION

  • ACTION RECOGNITION AND PRODUCTION

  • SPEECH-ASSOCIATED GESTURES

DYSFUNCTIONS OF

THE BROCA'S AREA

DYSFUNCTIONS

  • STUTTERING

  • EXPRESSIVE APHASIA
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