Broca's area

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Broca's area [′brō·kəz ‚er·ē·ə]

(neuroscience)

In the human brain, an area in the inferior left frontal lobe — one of several areas believed to activate the fibers of the precentral gyrus concerned with movements necessary for speech production; injury to this area generally results in nonfluent aphasia, with effortful articulation, loss of syntax, but relatively well-preserved auditory comprehension.

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No references found			These regions include the inferior frontal gyrus, or Broca's area, in the front left side of the brain, and the posterior temporal region, commonly referred to as Wernicke's area, toward the back left side of the brain. Same brain regions translate words and gestures by Asian News International By monitoring the brains of three patients while they performed a simple language task (looking at a word, then either using it in a sentence as is or changing its tense or number, and finally articulating it silently), Sahin and his colleagues found three distinct periods of activity in Broca's area at 200 milliseconds (after first being presented with the word), 320 milliseconds and 450 milliseconds. Scientists Trace Speed of Thought-to-Speech in Brain by FARS News Agency Be funny, ridiculous and silly because you grab the attention of Broca's Area in your brain for paying attention. Need Personal Long-Term Memory? by H. Bernard Wechsler / Advertising, marketing, public relations community			broadcaster broadcasting broadcatching broadcloth broadening of spectral lines broadleaf tree broadloom broadquesting Broads, the broadside Broadside Array broadside on broadside-on position Broadstairs and Saint Peter's Broadstairs Dickens Festival Broadsword Broadtail BroadVision Broadwater County Broadway Broadway Theaters brob Brobdingnag Broca galvanometer Broca's aphasia Broca's area Broca, Paul Broca, Pierre Paul Brocade brocatelle broccoli Brocéliande, Forest of Broceni broch Broch, Hermann brochanite brochanthite Brochantite Brochure brochureware Brock University Brock, Lou Brock, Sir Isaac Brock, Sir Thomas Brockdorff-Rantzau, Ulrich Brockelmann, Carl Brocken Brocken bow Brocken Harz Brocken specter Brocket			Broadway Theaters Broadway Video Encoding Services Broadway Youth Resource Centre broadways broadways broadwise Broan Bear Broan Bear Brob Brob Brob Brobdignagians Brobdignagians Brobdingnag Brobdingnag Brobdingnagian Brobdingnagian Brobdingnagians Broc Broca Broca Broca aphasia Broca aphasia Broca band Broca galvanometer Broca's Broca's Broca's aphasia Broca's aphasia Broca's aphasia Broca's area Broca's areas Broca's areas Broca's areas Broca's center Broca's center Broca's center Broca's center Broca's convolution Broca's convolution Broca's convolution Broca's convolution Broca's fissure Broca's gyrus Broca's gyrus Broca's gyrus Broca's motor speech area Broca's motor speech area Broca's motor speech area Broca's motor speech area Broca's motor speech area Broca's parolfactory area Broca's parolfactory area Broca's parolfactory area Broca's parolfactory area Broca's parolfactory area Broca's plane Broca's plane Broca's plane Broca's plane Broca's pupillometer

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