: a brain center associated with the motor control of speech and usually located in the left side of the frontal lobe
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The researchers measured neural activity directly from the surface of the language-generating structure known as Broca's area as subjects read text silently or aloud.
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Stephani Sutherland, Scientific American, 1 July 2015
This appears to be due to poor coordination between their auditory cortices (the areas responsible for processing basic phonemes) and their Broca's area (the region that processes higher-level language).
—Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2013
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Stephani Sutherland, Scientific American, 1 July 2015
This appears to be due to poor coordination between their auditory cortices (the areas responsible for processing basic phonemes) and their Broca's area (the region that processes higher-level language).
—Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2013
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