According to Dr. Michael Posner, Bilingual epileptic patients can lose the capability to speak one language during a seizure, while retaining the other one. The operational definition (the meaning of the question being observed) of "losing the capability to speak" is unclear. If Dr. Posner meant the definition to be how we execute speech, then there was damage to the patients Broca's area. Broca's area is in the frontal lobe, and is responsible for the production of speech. So if this is true, Dr. Posner believes two languages are processed in two different parts is false.
Wernicke's area is responsible for simple semantics in language. The patient lost the ability to speak one language, not the ability to understand it. Thus, both of the languages' semantic understandings are not proven to be processed in different parts of the brain.

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Dr. Gutin is the hospital's chief of neurosurgery. The removal of a tumor during neurosurgery requires surgeons to......

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Title: Psychology By Wade And Travis
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