ABSTRACT
For nearly a century, our understanding of how the brain produced language was based on the work of two nineteenth-century researchers, Paul Broca in France and Carl Wernicke in Germany. The work of each of these men was based on studies of aphasia, the inability to produce normal language due to brain deficits, and it is safe to say that not only their findings, but the ways in which those findings were and have been interpreted, have dominated our study of language and the brain almost up to the present day.
