Which Parts Of The Brain Do What?
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In 1861, a patient arrived at a Paris hospital saying the syllable “Tan” over and over again. His doctor, Paul Broca, found that the man could understand language without a problem; he just couldn’t say anything — besides Tan. When the patient unexpectedly died a few days later, Broca dissected his brain and found a small bit of damage – called a lesion – on the left frontal lobe, leading him to conclude that this part of the brain must be responsible for speech generation. Back then, scientists had only recently accepted the idea that we think with our brains rather than our hearts, and some kinda mean experiments with animals had convinced them that different parts of the brain were dedicated to different mental jobs. Broca’s lesion method...
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In 1861, a patient arrived at a Paris hospital saying the syllable “Tan” over and over again. His doctor, Paul Broca, found that the man could understand language without a problem; he just couldn’t say anything — besides Tan. When the patient unexpectedly died a few days later, Broca dissected his brain and found a small bit of damage – called a lesion – on the left frontal lobe, leading him to conclude that this part of the brain must be responsible for speech generation. Back then, scientists had only recently accepted the idea that we think with our brains rather than our hearts, and some kinda mean experiments with animals had convinced them that different parts of the brain were dedicated to different mental jobs. Broca’s lesion method...
