Broca area

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Labeled diagram of the human brain from a side view, highlighting regions for motor, sensory, auditory, visual, and speech functions, including Broca's and Wernicke's areas.

Learn how the right and left hemispheres of the brain differ and how speech can be affected by brain damage

Know Broca's lesion method in mapping brain activity in humans and how studies of brain disorders to the Broca area help evolve the scientific understanding of cognition

left hemisphere of the brain

How does the human brain process language?

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Modified link of Web site: PNAS - Redefining the role of Broca's area in speech.	Emily Rodriguez	May 14, 2026
	Add new Web site: Cell Press - Trends in Neurosciences - Evolutionary neuroanatomical expansion of Brocas region serving a human-specific function.	Aakanksha Gaur	Feb 21, 2026
	Add new Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Language Sciences - Is Broca's area critical for speech and language? Evidence from lesion-symptom mapping in chronic aphasia.	Grace Young	Aug 09, 2025
	Add new Web site: Academia - Brocas Area: Linking Perception and Production in Language and Actions (PDF).	Emily Rodriguez	May 25, 2025
	Add new Web site: Science.org - Science Advances - A cellular resolution atlas of Broca�s area.	Aakanksha Gaur	Apr 05, 2025
	Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - Neuroanatomy, Broca Area.	Aakanksha Gaur	Feb 21, 2025
	Add new Web site: American Physiological Society Journals - Physiology - Broca�s Region: From Action to Language.	Grace Young	Oct 15, 2024
	Add new Web site: Johns Hopkins Medicine - News and Publications - Broca�s Area is the Brain�s Scriptwriter, Shaping Speech, Study Finds.	Gloria Lotha	Mar 22, 2024
	Add new Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience - Broca?s area, sentence comprehension, and working memory: an fMRI study.	Aakanksha Gaur	Feb 09, 2024
	Add new Web site: Verywell Mind - How the Broca's Area of the Brain Functions.	Gloria Lotha	Nov 22, 2023
	Add new Web site: Simply Psychology - Broca�s Area Function and Location.	Gloria Lotha	Dec 15, 2022
	Add new Web site: PNAS - Redefining the role of Broca's area in speech.	Emily Rodriguez	Oct 08, 2022
	Corrected display issue.	Adam Augustyn	Jan 29, 2020
	Add new Web site: PNAS - A syntactic specialization for Broca's area.	Thinley Kalsang Bhutia	Mar 19, 2018
	Media added.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Feb 17, 2017
	Changed "motor neuron" to "neuron" in opening sentence.	Kara Rogers	Aug 31, 2016
	Added information on the anatomy and function of the Broca area.	Kara Rogers	Jul 31, 2015
	Add new Web site: PNAS - Redefining the role of Broca's area in speech.	Gloria Lotha	Nov 22, 2011
	New article added.	Kara Rogers	Apr 22, 2009