Caption Broca's area, located in the frontal lobe of brain, plays a key role in expressive speech. Blue regions represent areas of decreased blood flow in children and adults with stuttering when ...

Imagine seeing a furry, four-legged animal that meows. Mentally, you know what it is, but the word "cat" is stuck on the tip of your tongue. This phenomenon, known as Broca's aphasia or expressive ...

Broca’s area and Wernicke’s area ... extending across all the brain’s lobes. Just 1.5 to 5 millimeters in width, it is composed of the neurons that make up the brain’s “gray matter ...

The patch of frontal lobe adjacent to her tumor is called ... and functions are processed in localized regions of the brain. Broca defined the area named for him by studying a stroke victim.

Wernicke's area is another part of the brain. This is named after the German scientist Carl Wernicke (1848-1905). Shortly after Broca wrote about his findings, Wernicke began his own research.

Broca’s area and Wernicke’s area ... (For more, see Left Brain - Right Brain.) Lobes of the Brain The cerebral hemispheres are commonly mapped out based on four large regions—the frontal ...