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Going for Broca? I wouldn't bet on it!

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2003

Alan A. Beaton*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Wales Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea, Wales SA2 8PPUnited Kingdom

Abstract:

The role of Broca's area is currently unclear even with regard to language. Suggestions that this area was enlarged on the left in certain of our hominid ancestors are unconvincing. Broca's area may have nothing to do with a lateralized gestural or vocal system Handedness may have evolved more than four million years ago.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003

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