Broca's area, or the Broca area, is a region in the frontal lobe of the dominant hemisphere, usually the left, of the brain with functions linked to speech production.
Arcuate fasciculus connects Broca's area and Wernicke's area.
Pierre Paul Broca 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.
Pierre Paul Broca
Head of a rachitic child in the New York Infant Asylum (1895)
Louis Victor "Tan" Lebourgne's brain (by Pierre Marie)