• Pierre Paul Broca born (28-6-1824)

    From Ross Clark@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 2 12:17:43 2024
    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

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