How Did Paul Broca Contribute To Psychology

The famous psychologist Paul Broca was born June 28th, 1824 and died July 9th, 1880. In His 56 years on earth, he was able to study the frontal lobe portion of the brain so much that people now refer to it as the Broca's region of the brain. He was able to diagnose one patient perfectly before he died and confirmed his theory's after his death with an autopsy. Paul Broca was a widely respected scientist and psychologist, his work in brain studies helped to pave the way for the 21st-century scientist to move forward in brain research. Paul Broca was one of the first psychologists to take interest in the frontal lobe of the brain, and more importantly how it relates to behavior and attitude. The frontal lobe is now known to be the place of

They called the man being studied "tan" because he was only able to pronounce the syllable tan. He always said tan two times "Tan Tan" with different facial and body expressions depending on the question being asked. However patent tan did not start out life only being able to say that one syllable. Up until the age of 30 "tan" was able to communicate completely normally. He was a fully functional member of society and had no health problems at all. Even after he lost the use of his vocabulary he was still able to fully comprehend conversations between

After his death, Broca performed an autopsy to find out if his hypothesis of tan having a lesson in the frontal cortex of his brain was true. Broca was unsurprised to find out that he was absolutely correct. Just as he had hypothesized Tan had a large lesion in his brain in the area of the brain now called Broca's region which is now known to control all language functions. While Tan was by far Paul Broca's most important and controversial patent some would say his second case study would be just as important. Not long after Tan's death, Broca met another Patent. This man had Dementia but aside from that he also lost most of his ability to communicate verbally. He did however, retain the use of a few words unlike Patent Tan. This patent was able to say five or so words. The Patent died not long after Broca diagnosed him with Aphasia, the same thing as patent Tan. Again Paul performed an autopsy on this patients brain and found nearly the same lesion in the same spot as patent