Expressive language, in the form of grammatically correct and meaningful speech, is processed by Broca’s area and the damage to this area leads to Broca’s aphasia. Broca's area for Expressive language ...

A century and a half ago, French physician Pierre Paul Broca found that patients with damage to part of the brain's frontal lobe were unable to speak more than a few words. Later dubbed Broca's area, ...

When you read a book and listen to music, the brain doesn't keep these two tasks nicely separated. A new study shows there is an area in the brain which is busy with both at the same time: Broca's ...

June 28th was the 194th birthday of Paul Broca, the physician and anthropologist who discovered the area of the brain responsible for our ability to produce spoken language. His discovery marked the ...

Researchers at Harvard and the University of California, San Diego have discovered that a small region of the brain that has been predominantly associated with language production, is also responsible ...

Vincent Cheung, along with Angela Friederici, has been investigating non-local dependencies in music and trying to determine how the human brain processes them. In language and music, dependencies are ...

Researchers have made a significant breakthrough in explaining gaps in our understanding of human brain function. The study provides a picture of language processing in the brain with unprecedented ...

What is happening in the brain of an actor reciting Hamlet's "to be or not to be" soliloquy or of the person next to you at lunch saying, "Please pass the salt"? For 150 years, scientists have known ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Subjects learned UG-consistent and UG-inconsistent rules equally accurately (perhaps due to a ceiling effect), and both real and ...

I wrote an article for this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine about the grey zone between coma and consciousness. Stories like this one are always hard, because there are so many crucial dimensions to ...