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A comment on Daniel Dennett’s Science of the Soul. Parent comment

Re:Daniel Dennett’s Science of the Soul by andrewflnr on Thursday March 23, 2017 @05:00PM (#13944217)
Um, Wikipedia says Broca's area is involved in speech production. If you just mean the specific details of working the lips, vocal chords, etc, wouldn't that be the cerebellum's job?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broca%27s_area

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Re:Daniel Dennett’s Science of the Soul by metaphorm on Thursday March 23, 2017 @05:10PM (#13944316)
yes, it is involved in the neurological processing of speech production w.r.t to grammar and syntax. that's a separate function from fine control of muscles used to produce speech sounds.
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