Wernicke’s area

• German neurologist called Carl Wernicke
• Discovered another area of the brain that was involved in language

  comprehension
• Left temporal lobe
• Patients with lesions on their Wernicke’s area could speak but were unable to

  understand language
• Damage results in Wernicke’s aphasia- patients speak nonsense words.
• Broca’s area – language production Wernicke’ area – language comprehension