Broca's Area

Question

Broca's area
A) is concerned with motor speech.
B) allows a person to hear and interpret sound.
C) is located in the temporal lobe.
D) coordinates eye movements, as in scanning a page in a book.

Accepted Answer

Broca's area, located in the left hemisphere of the brain in the frontal lobe, is responsible for motor speech production and language comprehension. Damage to this area results in non-fluent aphasia, where the individual has difficulty producing speech but can still understand language.