Broca

[broh-kuh, braw-ka]

noun

1. Paul 1824–80, French surgeon and anthropologist.

Broca

/ brɔka /

noun

1. Paul (pɔl). 1824–80, French surgeon and anthropologist who discovered the motor speech centre of the brain and did pioneering work in brain surgery

Example Sentences

In the second stage, the network was trained to reproduce Broca's area, which, under the influence of Wernicke's area, is responsible for producing and articulating words.

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David Brocas, founder of mineral supply chain advisory firm Voltaire Minerals, said that battery metals are becoming as strategically important to countries as oil, and carmakers will need a special "diversified sourcing strategy" in response.

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Twenty-five years later, Dr. Pierre Paul Broca observed a young man who had lost the ability to speak and could utter only one syllable: “Tan.”

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People with Broca's aphasia may also suffer from physical symptoms including weakness or paralysis in their right arm and/or leg.

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“They are very different from the classical regions activated by spoken or written language, such as Broca’s area,” he said.

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