Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science is a 1979 book by the astrophysicist Carl Sagan. Its chapters were originally articles published...

the brain. Since then, the approximate region he identified has become known as Broca's area, and the deficit in language production as Broca's aphasia...

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...

of person with Broca's Aphasia "Broca's aphasia. Discovery of the area of the brain governing articulated language", analysis of Broca's 1861 article,...

inefficiencies. Broca's aphasia is a specific type of expressive aphasia and is so named due to the aphasia that results from damage or lesions to the Broca's area...

Broca may refer to: 340479 Broca, a minor planet Broca's area, a region of the hominid brain with functions linked to speech production Broca's Brain...

science communicator Carl Sagan. He used the phrase in his 1979 book Broca's Brain and the 1980 television program Cosmos. It has been described as fundamental...

He wrote many popular science books, such as The Dragons of Eden, Broca's Brain, Pale Blue Dot and The Demon-Haunted World. He also co-wrote and narrated...

left cerebral hemisphere. The affected areas are known today as Broca's area and Broca's Aphasia. A few years later, a German neuroscientist, Carl Wernicke...

physics within it as egregiously in error. In his 1979 science book Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science, astronomer Carl Sagan wrote...

Scientific Discovery. Hutchinson. ISBN 9780091117207. Sagan, Carl (2021). Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science. New York: Ballantine Books....

human brain that are important for language processing, Broca's area and Wernicke's area, both in the left hemisphere. Around the same time that Broca and...

astrophysicist Iosif Shklovsky and published in 1966. In his 1979 book Broca's Brain, Sagan suggested that he and Shklovsky might have inspired the wave...

involved in language production and processing are Broca's and Wernicke's areas, and the angular gyrus. Broca's Area was first suggested to play a role in speech...

found that the pars triangularis in Broca's area is actually larger than the same region in the right side of the brain. This "leftward asymmetry" corresponded...

program. Paul Broca associated regions of the brain with specific functions, in particular language in Broca's area, following work on brain-damaged patients...

edition) OCLC 6280573 Dewey Decimal 520 LC Class QB44.2 .S235 Preceded by Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science  Followed by Pale Blue Dot: A...

Griaule himself. Astronomer Carl Sagan touched upon the issue in his book Broca's Brain (1979), seeing problems in Temple's hypothesis. As an example, Sagan...

for a quantitative means of measuring intelligence. He argues that the brain to body mass ratio is an extremely good correlative indicator for intelligence...

University Press. pp. 660. ISBN 9780300107982. Sagan, Carl (1979). Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science. Random House. p. 64. ISBN 9780394501697...

Confront Velikovsky and as a corrected and revised version in the book Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science. It was not until the 1980s that...

Connection (1973) Mars and the Mind of Man (1973) The Dragons of Eden (1977) Broca's Brain (1979) Cosmos (1980) The Cold and the Dark (1984) Comet (1985) Shadows...

speech, the other being Broca's area. It is involved in the comprehension of written and spoken language, in contrast to Broca's area, which is primarily...

were proposed through phrenology. Paul Broca also discredited the idea when he discovered and named the "Broca's area". The patient's ability to produce...

Broca's fissure is a medical and scientific term for a sulcus occurring in the area of the brain known as Broca's area. Broca's area contains the motor...

2024. Wright, James R (30 June 2022). "Broca's legacy: fame not shame". Brain. 145 (6): e59–e60. doi:10.1093/brain/awac131. Archived from the original on...

the anterior portion of the left hemisphere, most notably Broca's area. Individuals with Broca's aphasia often have right-sided weakness or paralysis of...

of Broca interconnects the amygdala and the septal area. It is one of the olfactory structures. It is situated upon the inferior aspect of the brain. It...

in such non–Western societies. In a brief passage in his 1979 book Broca's Brain, the late science populariser Carl Sagan criticised Malinowski for thinking...

psychological theory". Parapsychology Review. 9 (5): 19–22. Sagan, C. (1977). Broca's Brain. Random House. Honegger, B. (1983). The OBE as a near-birth experience...