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Broca’s area in Broca’s era

Richard Leblanc: Fearful asymmetry. Bouillaud, Dax, Broca and the localization of language, Paris 1825–1879. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017, 255 pages, $35.96 HB

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  2. IHPST, Paris, France

    Denis Forest

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Forest, D. Broca’s area in Broca’s era. Metascience 27, 503–505 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-018-0344-9

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