====== Wernicke's area ======

Wernicke's area ,  also called Wernicke's speech area, is one of the two parts of the [[cerebral cortex]] linked, since the late nineteenth century, to [[speech]] (the other is [[Broca's area]]). It is involved in the understanding of written and spoken language. It is traditionally thought to be in brodmann area 22, which is located in the posterior section of the [[superior temporal gyrus]] (STG) in the dominant cerebral hemisphere (which is the left hemisphere in about 95% of right handed individuals and 60% of left handed individuals). Destruction to Wernicke's area results in receptive, [[fluent aphasia]].