What is "broca"

Usage examples of "broca".

Others, such as Paul Broca, secretary general of the Anthropological Society in Paris, agreed with Capellini that the marks on the whale bones were made by humans.

Once, Broca related, the spy wished to take a small unauthorized walk and asked if he might leave without anything threatening to the state being said in his absence.

But it would also be a kind of practical immortality, because, especially for a man like Broca, our minds are clearly a major aspect of who we are.

His falling short of these ideals shows that someone as unstinting in the free pursuit of knowledge as Broca could still be deflected by endemic and respectable bigotry.

Before the Anthropological Society in 1880 Broca exhibited a lad of eleven, a Piedmontese, named Jacques Inaudi.

In the presence of the Society Broca gave him verbally a task in multiplication, composed of some trillions to be multiplied by billions.

It was not until the work of Paul Broca in France, David Ferrier in England and other later nineteenth-century pioneers that it became clear that at least some aspects of brain function could be localized, in the sense that damage to them results in more or less specific functional deficits, from motor paralysis to loss of speech.

From this Broca - and after him many others - developed an entire speculative apparatus about how functional brain asymmetry was a uniquely human characteristic, and how adults, males and whites showed much greater such asymmetry than children, females and blacks.

Owen, Collyer, Calvert, Capellini, Broca, Ferretti, Bellucci, Slopes, Moir, Fisher, and Keith.

Capellini, Broca, Ferretti, Bellucci, Slopes, Moir, Fisher, and Keith.

Pierre, who sometimes saw Pozzi at his club, that my old paramour was the head of surgery at Hospital Broca, where he often invited his friends to witness his gynecological operations.

Totuus was found in his system, but the NYU neurologists believe he had another compound in his bloodstream that combined with the Totuus to form a neurotoxin specific to the Broca area.

He was about to say something else, to elaborate on his opinion about this turn, but was cut off when Legate Broca ewne into the briefing room without even chiming the door notice.

Before the Founder could curse the darkness, the door opened and the newly appointed liaison from the Cardassian force, Legate Broca, rushed in.

The announcement embarrassed Broca, she could clearly see-in fact, he was completely ashamed.