<p>Brodmann areas 44 and 45 are the pars opercularis and the pars triangularis, respectively. These areas are part of Broca’s area and cover the insula. Broca’s area was discovered in a patient who was unable to produce speech. This area is importance for semantics, phonetics, as well as verbal understanding, speech articulation, grammatical processing, and speech fluency. Boiled down, this is the area that enables us to speak. When compromised, we may see difficulty producing speech, stuttering, and other symptoms of difficulty producing words. This area is also important for internal speech and the internal rehearsal of information.&nbsp;</p><p>The pars traingularis (Brodmann area 45) is important in memory networks, particularly episodic, syntactic, semantic, and declarative memory encoding. When reading aloud, this area allows for the decoding and correct pronunciation of speech&nbsp; (Thompson &amp; Thompson, 2015, p. 51-52).</p><p><br></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="@@PLUGINFILE@@/ba-45.png" alt="" width="538" height="700" role="presentation" class="img-responsive atto_image_button_text-bottom"><br></p>