Wernicke Aphasia

Aphasia is typically caused by an injury to the left hemisphere of the brain, resulting in the impairment of speech and language skills including fluency, repetition, naming and comprehension (Dronkers & Baldo, 2010). Wernicke’s area is part of the association cortex, located in the posterior of the temporal lobe, usually in the left hemisphere of the brain (Bernstein et al., 2013). Additionally, the function of Wernicke’s area has been shown to be involved in the comprehension of speech in both written and spoken forms (Bernstein et al., 2013). Consequently, damage to Wernicke’s area disrupts the comprehension process of language, resulting in what is known as Wernicke’s aphasia, named from neurologist Carl Wernicke who first discovered this