A new study from UC San Francisco challenges the traditional view of how the brain strings sounds together to form words and ...

Speaking requires a precise sequence of muscle movements, long thought to be coordinated by Broca’s area in the brain.

Broca's area is the brain's script writer where words take shape, study finds Tracking the flow of speech through the brain, researchers find Broca's area is crucial ...

New Light On Nature Of Broca's Area: Rare Procedure Documents How Human Brain Computes Language Date: October 16, 2009 Source: University of California - San Diego ...

Broca discovered in 1865 that both patients had damage to the same small area of the brain. Ever since then, scientists have been trying to figure out precisely what happens in Broca's area.

Broca's Area . Expressive language, in the form of grammatically correct and meaningful speech, is processed by Broca’s area and the damage to this area leads to Broca’s aphasia.

Where The Brain Organizes Actions Date: June 16, 2006 Source: Cell Press Summary: Researchers have discovered that Broca's area in the brain -- best known as the region that evolved to manage ...

Broca’s area may be involved in both language production, comprehension. By CAROLINE A. SOLOMON, Contributing Writer. Researchers at Harvard and the University of California, San Diego have ...

Broca's area, restricted to the left hemisphere, is centrally involved in language processing. The equivalent area, in the right hemisphere (red), plays a similar role but for the processing of music.

Broca looked at other patients with the same condition (known as aphasia), and found that they too suffered damage in the same area–what came to be known as “Broca’s area.” It’s hard to ...