How Unique You Are! -Continue with Unequaled Communication Skills

The actual information needed to ask the simple question, "How are you today?" is stored in a part of your brain's frontal lobe called Broca's area,  which some consider to be your speech center. Nobel laureate neuroscientist Sir John Eccles wrote:  "No area corresponding to the . . . speech area of Broca has been recognized in apes."  Even if some similar areas are found in animals, the fact is that scientist cannot get apes  to produce more than a few crewed speech sounds.  You, though, can produce complicated language. To do so,  you put words together according to the grammar of your language. Broca's area helps you do that, both in speaking and in writing. 

 Of course, you cannot exercise the miracle of speech unless you know at least one language and understand what its words mean.  This involves another special part of your brain, known as Wernicke's area.  Here, billions of neurons discern the meaning of spoken or written words. Wernicke's area helps you to make  sense of statements and to comprehend what you hear or read; thus you can learn information and can respond sensibly. 

There is even more to your fluent speech.  To illustrate:  A verbal "Hello" can convey a host of meanings. Your tone of voice reflects whether  you are happy, excited, bored, rushed, annoyed, sad, or frightened, and it may even reveal degrees of those emotional states. Another area of your brain supplies information for the emotional part of speech. So, various parts of your brain come into play when you communicate. 

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From the book Is There a Creator That Cares About You?