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Paul Broca · French physician, anatomist and anthropologist (1824-1880) · 1824–1880

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Paul Pierre Broca (, also UK:, US:, French:; 28 June 1824 – 9 July 1880) 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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