{"id":133,"date":"2012-07-02T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T08:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/?p=189"},"modified":"2022-01-04T19:49:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T19:49:17","slug":"rethinking-the-role-of-brocas-area-in-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/beginner\/2012\/07\/02\/rethinking-the-role-of-brocas-area-in-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking the Role of Broca\u2019s Area in Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-269\" title=\"Broca\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog-lecerveau.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Broca.jpg\" alt=\"Broca\" width=\"110\" height=\"110\" \/>In 1861, Paul Broca observed a sizable lesion in the left inferior frontal cortex of a patient who had just died. This individual had been able to understand what was said to him, but had been unable to pronounce anything but the syllable \u201ctan\u201d. Subsequently, this same observation was confirmed in many other individuals, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrain.mcgill.ca\/flash\/d\/d_10\/d_10_cr\/d_10_cr_lan\/d_10_cr_lan.html\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Broca\u2019s area<\/span><\/a>, whose destruction results in this form of aphasia (now known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrain.mcgill.ca\/flash\/i\/i_10\/i_10_p\/i_10_p_lan\/i_10_p_lan.html#3\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Broca\u2019s aphasia<\/span><\/a>), thus became associated with the production of language.<\/p>\n<p>But the role attributed to Broca\u2019s area <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrain.mcgill.ca\/flash\/a\/a_10\/a_10_cr\/a_10_cr_lan\/a_10_cr_lan.html\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">has become far more complex since these initial observations were made<\/span><\/a>. In addition to the production of language, this area is now also believed to be involved in certain semantic aspects of language. For example, Dr. Peter Hagoort\u2019s research using brain imaging shows that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrain.mcgill.ca\/flash\/a\/a_12\/a_12_p\/a_12_p_con\/a_12_p_con.html#freeman\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">dynamic<\/span><\/a> association of Broca\u2019s area with the left posterior temporal cortex is necessary for understanding language.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Other brain-imaging experiments suggest that different cognitive processes (such as recognizing groups of words, making grammatical decisions, and formulating oral responses) activate different sub-areas of Broca\u2019s area. These new neurobiological data have been used to develop functional models of Broca\u2019s areathat make the simplistic dichotomy between production and understanding of language ever more tenuous.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/channels\/events\/item\/?item_id=115814\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0pt;\" title=\"i_lien\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/i_lien.gif\" alt=\"i_lien\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" \/> Dr. Peter Hagoort: CRLMB Distinguished Lecture Series<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=113834285\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0pt;\" title=\"i_lien\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/i_lien.gif\" alt=\"i_lien\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" \/> In Milliseconds, Brain Zips From Thought To Speech<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/channels\/events\/item\/?item_id=115188\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0pt;\" title=\"i_lien\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/i_lien.gif\" alt=\"i_lien\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" \/> Dr. Gina Kuperberg: CRLMB Distinguished Lecture Series<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cmbi.bjmu.edu.cn\/news\/report\/2005\/neuro\/20.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0pt;\" title=\"a_lien\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/a_lien.gif\" alt=\"a_lien\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" \/> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">On Broca, brain, and binding:a new framework<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/19001084\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0pt;\" title=\"a_exp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/a_exp.gif\" alt=\"a_exp\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" \/> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Retrieval and Unification of Syntactic Structure in Sentence Comprehension: an fMRI Study Using Word-Category Ambiguity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1861, Paul Broca observed a sizable lesion in the left inferior frontal cortex of a patient who had just died. This individual had been able to understand what was said to him, but had been unable to pronounce anything but the syllable \u201ctan\u201d. Subsequently, this same observation was confirmed in many other individuals, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[63,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/beginner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/beginner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/beginner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/beginner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/beginner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/beginner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1058,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/beginner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/1058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/beginner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/beginner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/beginner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}