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Carl Wernicke (1874)

Carl Wernicke (1874). Katie Hughes and Marley Roberts. Wernicke’s Area. Function: language comprehension, Semantic processing, language recognition, language interpretation Location: Wernicke's area is located in the left temporal lobe, posterior to the primary auditory complex.

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Carl Wernicke (1874)

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  1. Carl Wernicke (1874) Katie Hughes and Marley Roberts

  2. Wernicke’s Area Function: language comprehension, Semantic processing, language recognition, language interpretation Location: Wernicke's area is located in the left temporal lobe, posterior to the primary auditory complex.

  3. Wernicke’s Study • In 1873, Wernicke received a patient who had suffered a stroke • Couldn’t make sense of spoken words • Writing was incomprehensible • The patient spoke in a perfectly normal way • This sparked his interest in studying the brain • After his patient died, he discovered that there was a lesion near the auditory region in the back of the left side of the brain

  4. Discovery • When looking at the lesion, he discovered that this particular region on the brain was associated with: • Sensory and receptive activity • Speech and Reading comprehension • This explained why the patient was unable to interpret speech and writing • This area was then called Wernicke’s Area of the brain • The syndrome that the patient had was then named aphasia by Wernicke

  5. Concepts Today Nowadays, scientists believe that Wernicke’s area could also be involved with semantic( language or logic) processing Sometimes called the receptive language area

  6. Discussion Questions When was a time that you felt that you could not interpret what someone was saying to you? What about when you were reading? Did anyone that you know ever had a stroke? If so, Can you compare the symptoms of their stroke to the symptoms of the patient in the study? Do you think Wernicke’s Area and your assigned area work together? How are they similar?

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