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Nature 446, 956-957 (26 April 2007) | doi:10.1038/446956b; Published online 25 April 2007

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Brain's speech site is revisited and revised

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Scans of pickled organs shed fresh light on Broca's area.

Analysis of two damaged brains, preserved in a museum since the nineteenth century, could force neuroscientists to rethink the area where language resides in the brain.In 1861, the French surgeon and anatomist Paul Broca described two patients who had lost the ability to speak.