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Broca [17] did not credit the left hemisphere with all language functions: the patient has “generally lost only the ability to reproduce the articulate sounds of the language”; he still understands “what is said to him and, consequently, understands the relation between ideas and words.” Leborgne, for one, seemed to understand “nearly (everything) said to him” (p 345). The “faculty of creating those relations (thus) belongs simultaneously to (both) hemispheres … but the faculty of expressing them by coordinated movements … would appear to belong only to one,” “nearly always … the left” ([20], p 386).