Paul Broca
French physician, anatomist and anthropologist (1824-1880) · France · Doctors · Died at 56
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Something wrong?Paul Pierre Broca was a French physician, anatomist and anthropologist. He is best known for his research on Broca's area, a region of the frontal lobe that is named after him. Broca's area is involved with language.
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Head of a rachitic child in the New York Infant Asylum (1895)
Stereograph designed by Paul Broca and manufactured by Mathieu
Map of Color of Skin: Figures indicate tint in Broca's scale
Louis Victor "Tan" Lebourgne's brain (by Pierre Marie)
Broca's area
"Senator Broca will henceforth give examples of behavior in line with his theories." Le Triboulet, February 1880.Awards
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Paul Pierre Broca was a French physician, anatomist and anthropologist. He is best known for his research on Broca's area, a region of the frontal lobe that is named after him. Broca's area is involved with language. His work revealed that the brains of patients with aphasia contained lesions in a particular part of the cortex, in the left frontal region. This was the first anatomical proof of localization of brain function.
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