"Gustave Dax's own unique contribution, however, has been almost completely overlooked. Benton were responsible for bringing to light the role and importance of the Daxes for neurolinguistics, in a number of papers. In our opinion, the weight of evidence reported here suggests that the theory of the left hemisphere dominance for speech must be attributed equally to Dax and Broca, and henceforth should be called the theory of Dax-Broca." That is the reason why I did not mention the name of Dax in my paper.
On the contrary, he always claimed to be the first to espouse the theory of left hemisphere dominance for language and never quoted Marc Dax (Broca, 1877 p 536), I do not like dealing with the questions of priority concerning myself. "Probably, Broca was aware of the paper prior to 1865, but he never acknowledged Dax's original theoretical contribution. In consequence, today the discovery of the link between the left hemisphere and speech is typically credited to Paul Broca.Īccording to authors Cubelli and Montagna, the Broca's theory should be renamed: His contribution received a negative appraisal by the Academy, however, and Gustave Dax was overlooked by the scientific establishment of the time. The publication included the 1836 memoir of Marc Dax, his deceased father, and additional clinical observations of his own on 140 patients.
In 1863, Gustave Dax, the son of Marc Dax, published his father's work on the subject, two years before Paul Broca's publication on the same phenomenon.
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