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=== Broca's aphasia ===
Broca's aphasia is a specific type of [[expressive aphasia]] and is so named due to the aphasia that results from damage or lesions to the [[Broca's area]] of the brain, that exists most commonly in the left inferior frontal hemisphere. Thus, the aphasia that develops from the lack of functioning of the Broca's area is an expressive and non-fluent aphasia. It is called 'non-fluent' due to the issues that arise because Broca's area is critical for language pronunciation and production. The area controls some motor aspects of speech production and articulation of thoughts to words and as such lesions to the area result in specific non-fluent aphasia.<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Pinel PJ |title=Biopsychology |date=2011 |publisher=Allyn & Bacon |isbn=978-0-205-83256-9 |edition=8th}}{{
=== Wernicke's aphasia ===
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===Sex differences===
{{See also|Neuroscience of sex differences}}
In the 19th century and to a lesser extent the 20th, it was thought that each side of the brain was associated with a specific gender: the left corresponding with masculinity and the right with femininity and each half could function independently.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Harrington |first1=Anne |title=Medicine, Mind, and the Double Brain: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Thought |date=1989 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-02422-6 |pages=87–90 }}</ref> The right side of the brain was seen as the inferior and thought to be prominent in women, savages, children, criminals, and the insane. A prime example of this in fictional literature can be seen in [[Robert Louis Stevenson]]'s ''[[Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stiles |first1=Anne |title=Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde and the Double Brain |journal=SEL: Studies in English Literature
==History==
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