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area
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Area
The size of a two-dimensional space. One calculates the area by multiplying the area's length by its width.
area
A measurement of the square footage contained within certain boundaries.
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These regions include the inferior frontal gyrus, or Broca's area, in the front left side of the brain, and the posterior temporal region, commonly referred to as Wernicke's area, toward the back left side of the brain.
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Neurophysiological changes also can occur (Perry, Pollard, Blakely, Baker, & Vigilante, 1995; Speier, 2000), resulting in decreased functioning in the part of the brain known as the Broca's area, which controls the ability to speak, and in the Wernicke's area, which controls the ability to comprehend language (Siegel' 1999).
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