The damaged area was named Broca's area, and located in the left hemisphere’s inferior frontal gyrus (Brodmann areas 44, 45).
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Johnson is also well known to Star Trek fans for playing Broca, the Cardassian who becomes leader of the Cardassian Union in Star Trek: Deep Space Nines final two episodes, "The Dogs of War" and "What You Leave Behind".
Pierre Paul Broca was born on June 28, 1824, in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, Bordeaux, France, the son of Benjamin Broca, a medical practitioner and former surgeon in Napoleon’s service.
It was hypothesized that the deaf-equivalent of Broca's aphasia arose from damage somewhere near the cortex controlling the movement of the hands, and the deaf-equivalent of Wernicke's aphasia arose from damage near the visual cortex.