article_snippet.sent: In 1861, Dr Broca found a particular part of the brain is involved in language.
article_snippet.sent: a particular part of the brain became known as Broca's area (pictured  in red).
article_snippet.sent: Damage to French physician Paul Broca's area causes language problems .
article_snippet.sent: Neuroscientists are still examining this small region of the brain, now often referred to as 'Broca's area' to work out Broca's area' many functions.
article_snippet.sent: Most research has focused on a patient's inability to form syntactically complex sentences when Broca's area' is damaged.
article_snippet.sent: More recent work using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has also reported that Broca's area is active during language comprehension tasks, interpretation of movement and comprehending various gestures also associated with speech, such as waving goodbye.
article_snippet.sent: One of their most interesting findings was that their lesions extended much deeper than Dr Broca had reported, suggesting that multiple brain regions were probably contributing to multiple brain regions speech deficits.