A region of temporoparietal cortex in the brain that is involved in the perception and production of speech.

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A language impairment characterized by fluent, meaningless speech and little language comprehension. This results from damage to the Wernicke's area.

Fluent aphasia

Breedlove, S. & Watson, N. (2017). Behavioral neuroscience, eighth edition. Oxford University Press.

Damage to the angular gyrus can cause word blindness, which is the inability to understand written words.

Damage to the superior temporal lobe can cause word deafness, which is the inability to understand spoken words.

The inability to name persons or objects readily