The Broca's Effects On The Brain

The Broca speech area is rostral to the inferior edge of the premotor area on the inferior frontal gyrus. It is usually on the left hemisphere and is responsible for the motor aspects of speech. Damage to this area leads to expressive aphasia or dysphasia (p.452)

The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast Broca’s and Wernickie’s area of the brain. The approach to identifying parts of the brain that involved language started in 1861 when the brain of a not long ago patient who had an unusual disorder passed away, by a French neurosurgeon, named Paul Broca. (Dubuc 2002) The patient whose name became known as “Tan” was the result of that being the only sound he could make, the syllable tan.

Hypothalamus: regulates thirst, appetite, body temperature and sleep cycles. Cerebellum: muscle movement, balance and coordination. Temporal lobe: verbal and visual memory. Limbic lobe: emotions and smells. Frontal lobe: planning and interpreting the world around us.

The frontal area is the brain’s largest lobe and the most common area of damage in football players. The frontal lobes are where reason and thinking takes place. It is responsible for voluntary movement, attention span, and judgment. The frontal lobe regulates mood and emotion.

The frontal lobe is responsible for decision making, processing (like planning), and speech fluency. In our exhibit, the frontal lobe is represented by stimulating activities including tongue twisters and a “chose your

The Frontal lobe holds a very high position in the brain and is located directly in the front of the brain. This lobe conducts the entire decision making process and also has connections with memory, emotion and an individual’s personality. “But it is also

“The frontal lobe is used with memory for habits”. Baseball players use this part of the brain to help himself perfect their swing and to swing the same way every swing. They work on their mechanics of their swing repeatedly. The frontal lobe helps to build good habit in baseball. “The occipital lobe deals with vision”. Baseball players use the occipital lobe to determine whether a pitch is in the strike zone.The difference between a ball and a strike could be an inch. This is why baseball players need to use their parietal lobe. Baseball players use the parietal lobe to hit a baseball. Finally, the brainstem controls reflexes. Baseball players need the brainstem when a line drive is hit right at them. Reflexes dictate whether your gonna get hit or catch the

c. One study showed a 37% reduction of the brain’s activity in the parietal lobe that processes cognitive, memory, information regarding the driving task, sense of direction and “spatial sense” as well as the occipital lobe that processes the visual information (Aker, 2011).

In order to be able to process the syntactic aspect of language, Broca's region has to be in working order. To fully understand this, I read more about syntax and it's role in language. To sum it up, syntax consists of the rules of grammar, sentence structure, and all the words that are used, and how they are used, in those sentences. When images were done on Broca's region, indications were very apparent that this region is necessary for processing syntactic language, especially the more complex it becomes. It acts as a processor of both receptive and expressive language, in that it helps a person to produce accurate language to communicate and also to make sense of the sentences being spoken to them. Thus, making this region of the brain

The brain is very complex and allows us to do different things. The part of the brain known as the

lobe is responsible for your memory, emotions and personality. The ability for us to make decisions,

The Frontal lobe; which is to do with behaviour, the person’s personality, interpretation and feelings.

My best friends invited me over for pizza and a friendly game of cards and the Broca’s area, which deals with language and speech; the hippocampus, that plays a crucial part in memory; the hypothalamus, partly controlling my body’s endocrine and hormone- producing system and the occipital lobe allowing me to see all that goes on around me, all are parts of my brain which was involved during the evening of eating pizza, socializing, and playing cards with my friends.

In addition, the limbic system is responsible for our perception of other emotions, both positive and negative, which explains the mood altering properties of many drugs. The cerebral cortex is divided into areas that control specific functions. Different areas process information from our senses, enabling us to see, feel, hear, and taste. The front part of the cortex, the frontal cortex or forebrain, is the thinking center of the brain, it powers our ability to think, plan, solve problems, and make decisions.

The brain is dividing into several sections, including the cerebellum, the frontal lobe, and the temporal lobe, among others. The temporal lobe exists in two parts, one on each side of the brain close to the ears. It is largely responsible for the memory system (2). On the medial surface of the temporal lobe there are three important structure that are essential for human functioning. These structures are named, in order from rostral to caudal, the olfactory cortex, the amygdala, and the hippocampus. Together these three structures are referred to as the "limbic system" (1). Their functions became understood after studying how the brain functions upon loss of each structure. For example, in 1953, a patient suffering from epilepsy underwent surgery which removed most of his medial temporal lobe (1). After the surgery, the patient was able to remember who he was and was able to carry out coherent, intelligent conversations. However, if the person with whom he was talking left the room, he would have no