June 28th was the 194th birthday of Paul Broca, the physician and anthropologist who discovered the area of the brain responsible for our ability to produce spoken language. His discovery marked the ...

Vincent Cheung, along with Angela Friederici, has been investigating non-local dependencies in music and trying to determine how the human brain processes them. In language and music, dependencies are ...

The brain's speech area, named after 19th century French physician Pierre Paul Broca, shuts down when we talk out loud, according to a new study that challenges the long-held assumption that 'Broca's ...

Exactly 150 years ago, on March 24, 1863, an obscure French doctor lit the fuse on one of most unpleasant episodes in neuroscience history. This story actually got started in 1861, when Paul Broca, ...

THE sudden death of the eminent French anthropologist, Dr. Paul Broca, which we announced a fortnight since, is an irreparable loss to science, and for the French medical and anthropological schools ...

"Obituary notice of the late Pierre Paul Broca, Hon. Member of the Institute, who died July 8, 1880 (prepared by E.W. Brabrook, F.S.A., Director), is published in ...

What might alien music sound like? Would it be structured hierarchically as our music is with verses and a chorus? Would we even be able to appreciate it? Vincent Cheung from Max Planck Institute for ...

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WE regret extremely to have to announce the death of this distinguished physician and anthropologist, which took place suddenly at Paris on Thursday last. He had attended a meeting of the Senate, of ...