Language and brain: where do the words come from when we speak?

In 2011, it was the 150th anniversary of Paul Broca's historic publications on the cerebral origin of language. In these works, the famous French neurologist presented cases of patients who, after having suffered damage to different cerebral regions, suffered from shortages in very specific aspects of their language. These works paved the way for a reasoned, empirical study of the link between anatomy and complex cerebral functions such as language.
150 years later, the conceptual and empirical progress made in cognitive psychology, the detailed study of aphasic patients (i.e. those deprived of speech) as well as modern techniques of cerebral imaging have all provided us with many answers as to the cerebral origin of words and language. In this context, Professor Alario will be presenting classical and recent studies on the cerebral origin of language, in an attempt to answer the question: "Where do the words come from when we speak?"