Tan,a patient of Broca's who had severe speech problems,was capable of uttering only one syllable "Tan" (hence the name).After Tan's death,examination of his brain revealed a number of lesions in the frontal lobe.It was ascertained from this that parts of the frontal lobe are important for speech production.Gathering knowledge from someone about brain function after death with known difficulties would be an example of
A)Broca's technique.
B)Brain Capacity Functional Analysis.
C)in vivo techniques.
D)postmortem studies.

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This scenario describes a postmortem study, which involves examining the brain after death to gather information about brain function in individuals who had known difficulties or disorders.

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