Paul Broca

LEGACY Discovering Trepanation : The Contribution of Paul Broca

PAUL BROCA WAS an icon of neuroscience and neurosurgery who also happened to be intrigued by trepanned skulls. His anthropological work established that, thousands of years ago, individuals not only trepanned skulls but also successfully performed these operations on living persons. After first commenting on a pre-Columbian Peruvian skull in 1867 (the first case of trepanning on a living person...

On Broca, Brain, and Binding

Not all brain areas are equal. Some have triggered the attention and fascination of mankind more than oth­ ers. Few have even seen books devoted to them or en­ tered the domain of general awareness. Broca's area is one of these areas. No doubt, one of the main rea­ sons is that this area is often seen as distinctly human. After all, isn't it Broca's area that is connected to the faculty that ma...

پل کلودل Paul Claudel

Within Broca ’ s Area Sequential Processing

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Speech production: Wernicke, Broca and beyond.

We investigated the brain systems engaged during propositional speech (PrSp) and two forms of non- propositional speech (NPrSp): counting and reciting overlearned nursery rhymes. Bilateral cerebral and cerebellar regions were involved in the motor act of articulation, irrespective of the type of speech. Three additional, left-lateralized regions, adjacent to the Sylvian sulcus, were activated i...