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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Pierre Paul Broca born (28-6-1824) Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2024 12:17:43 +1200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 10 Message-ID: <v5vgvb$1ad2h$1@dont-email.me> Reply-To: r.clark@auckland.ac.nz MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2024 02:17:48 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3547c602203185229001692cb494170c"; logging-data="1389649"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/oI04NRotMJQqQGwQj+H9FIWOXPUwYuvg=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:qaa4MJQP5POHUiw4HKrhsNZScCI= Content-Language: en-GB X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.eternal-september.org:119 Bytes: 1561 French physician, anatomist and anthropologist Linguists learn his name because "Broca's area" is one of the bits of the brain that are understood to be important for language. Broca noticed that patients with aphasia often had lesions in this part of the left frontal cortex. "This was the first anatomical proof of localization of brain function." (Wiki) His term for the expressive aphasia his patients suffered was "aphémie". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Broca https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphasia