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Please cite this article in press as: Fedorenko et al., Language-Selective and Domain-General Regions Lie Side by Side within Broca’s Area, Current Biology (2012), /10.1016/j.cub.2012.09.011 Current Biology 22 , 1–4, November 6, 2012 ª2012 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved /10.1016/j.cub.2012.09.011 Report Language-Selective and Domain-General Regions Lie Side by Side within Broca’s Area Evelina Fedorenko,1,* John Duncan,2 and Nancy Kanwisher1 performed tasks tapping mental arithmetic, spatial and verbal 1McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Brain and working memory, and several varieties of cognitive control. Cognitive Sciences Department, Massachusetts Institute of Each task had a harder and an easier condition, and all had Technology, 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA been previously reported to elicit activity in or near Broca’s 2 Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Medical Research area. Council, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF, UK We found two distinct subregions, each present in at least 90% of subjects individually, with strikingly different but highly reliable functional profiles, lying side by side within Broca’s Summary area and each spanning the BA44/45 boundary (Figure 1). One subregion, identified in each subject as responding In 1861, Paul Broca stood up before the Anthropological more during the processing