Broca's Area - Primary Functions
Dr. Sukhi Shergill discusses the importance of Broca's area to generating speech.
Broca’s area is a bit of the brain which is on the front left side of the cortex of the brain and it’s responsible for generating speech. So whenever we’re speaking, that’s the area that’s involved in that and we know that from people who have had damage in that area because they have problems with articulating and being able to generate language.
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