Editing Broca's area (section)

====Broca's area as a key center in the linking of phonemic sequences====
Broca's area has been previously associated with a variety of processes, including phonological segmentation, syntactic processing, and unification, all of which involve segmenting and linking different types of linguistic information.<ref name=pmid15866191>{{cite journal | vauthors = Friederici AD | title = Towards a neural basis of auditory sentence processing | journal = Trends in Cognitive Sciences | volume = 6 | issue = 2 | pages = 78–84 | date = February 2002 | pmid = 15866191 | doi = 10.1016/S1364-6613(00)01839-8 | doi-access = free | hdl = 11858/00-001M-0000-0010-E573-8 | hdl-access = free }}</ref><ref name=pmid10936919>{{cite journal | vauthors = Burton MW, Small SL, Blumstein SE | title = The role of segmentation in phonological processing: an fMRI investigation | journal = Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience | volume = 12 | issue = 4 | pages = 679–90 | date = July 2000 | pmid = 10936919 | doi = 10.1162/089892900562309 | s2cid = 685383 }}</ref><ref name=pmid20961611>{{cite journal | vauthors = Flinker A, Chang EF, Barbaro NM, Berger MS, Knight RT | title = Sub-centimeter language organization in the human temporal lobe | journal = Brain and Language | volume = 117 | issue = 3 | pages = 103–9 | date = June 2011 | pmid = 20961611 | pmc = 3025271 | doi = 10.1016/j.bandl.2010.09.009 }}</ref> Although repeating and reading single words does not engage semantic and syntactic processing, it does require an operation linking phonemic sequences with motor gestures. Findings indicate that this linkage is coordinated by Broca's area through reciprocal interactions with temporal and frontal cortices responsible for phonemic and articulatory representations, respectively, including interactions with the motor cortex before the actual act of speech. Based on these unique findings, it has been proposed{{by whom|date=March 2018}} that Broca's area is not the seat of articulation, but rather is a key node in manipulating and forwarding neural information across large-scale cortical networks responsible for key components of speech production.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}