Beyond Broca: The two routes to speaking
Beyond Broca: The two routes to speaking
- November 4, 2025
- Gregory Hickok, cognitive sciences and language science, explains in this piece for Psychology Today
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"For over 150 years, neuroscientists have known that a small region in the left frontal lobe—Broca's area—plays a crucial role in speech production. Named after French physician Paul Broca, who identified it in the 1860s, this brain region has become synonymous with our ability to speak. But recent discoveries suggest that Broca's area is just one player in a far more complex and fascinating neural orchestra than we ever imagined."
Continue reading: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wired-for-words/202511/beyond-broca-the-two-routes-to-speaking
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