Broca's Area

It is names after Paul Broca, a surgeon who discovered this region while treating a patient who became known as…

Tan

Tan could understand language spoken to him but his own speech was slow, slurred, and lacked…

Fluency and coherent words - he could only say Tan

After Tan's death, Broca conducted a post-mortem examination of his brain and discovered that he had…

A lesion in his left frontal lobe

This led Broca to conclude that this area must be responsible for…

Speech production

People with damage to this area experience _____________ - slow, inarticulate speech with struggle accessing ______________

Broca's aphasia

Meaningful words