The cerebral cortex

• Another important speech center (located intemporal lobe) = Wernicke’s Area• Damage leads to Wernicke’s aphasia• problems with both production andcomprehension of speech (and writing)• [speech sample here]Note from Dec ’06 while reading Intro papers- they think speech could be replaced by written lang or signing. Need to verifythen add info on effects on written language and signing. The issue is language processing – not speech per se