11652 IUPAC Gold Book - Broca area 10.1351/goldbook.11652 11652 current synonym: Broca speech area 1 Region in the frontal lobe of one of the hemispheres (the speech-dominant hemisphere, usually the left) of the hominid brain that is involved in motor functions of speech production. Destruction of the Broca area results in a characteristic type of aphasia. aphasia https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11599 brain https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11647 frontal lobe https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11773 PAC, 2015, 87, 841. 'IUPAC Glossary of terms used in neurotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2015)' on page 854 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0103) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11652/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11652/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11652/plain Citation: 'Broca area' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.11652 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-07-23T19:01:11+00:00