1. Broca also had an example of where language might live within the left brain.

2. One is Broca s area at the front.

3. Broca discovered that the faculty of speech is localized in the third left frontal convolution.

4. The classic case was discovered by Paul Broca in 1861.

5. In 1861 Broca met a patient who had been given the nickname "Tan, " because "tan" was the only syllable he had been able to utter for the past 21 years.

6. In 1865, Pierre Paul Broca pinpointed the part of the brain responsible for language by autopsying brains of the language-impaired—the region is now called Broca’s area.

7. In the past decade research has revealed that Broca’s area also contains a representation of the hands.

8. The team then monitored the Wenicke’s and Broca’s areas of the brain for signals related to speech formation.

9. Methods 22 patients with Broca aphasia were trained with the early melodic intonation training program.

10. Just as Broca’s area helps us to correctly string together words and phrases, its homologue may serve to place units of movement into seamless sequences.

11. Pierre Paul Broca was a 19th century French doctor. He first recognized the big part that this small area plays in language.

12. Broca defined the area named for him by studying a stroke victim.

13. In the 1860s the French surgeon Paul Broca noted a relationship between right-handedness and left-hemispheric brain specialization for language abilities.

14. “The cranial capacity must have been very large, ” he said, and “calculation by the method of Broca gives a minimum figure of 1, 832 cc [cubic centimeters].”

15. They found that specific parts of the brain region known as Broca’s area (a well-known speech center in the brain) are active both when listening to and when producing lilted speech.

16. Researchers have thus now looked at the inner workings of Broca’s area—and communicated their findings.

17. The cause of death was not announced but the newspaper Le Parisien reported that de Broca had died of cancer in the American hospital in a western Paris suburb.