speech center
Brain's verbal hub
The speech center refers to areas of the brain responsible for producing and understanding language.
The term usually indicates Broca's area, which controls speech production, or Wernicke's area, which handles language comprehension.
Damage to these regions can cause specific impairments: A stroke in the speech center left him able to understand words but unable to speak them.
- BrocaNeuroscientist behind speech-area discovery
- aphasiaNeurological language impairment
- languageSystem of symbolic communication
- brainSeat of cognition
- left brainAnalytical cerebral hemisphere
cortex · temporal · temporal lobe · frontal · frontal lobe · lobe · articulation · verbal · neurons · brain damage · stroke · hemisphere · left · processing · fluency · lost for words · comprehension · motor
- braincerebrum, cerebellum, cortex, hippocampus, hypothalamus
- brain regionscerebrum, frontal lobe, temporal lobe, parietal lobe, occipital lobe
- brain lateralitylaterality, handedness, brain lateralization, left-handedness, right-handedness
speech centermotor cortex
Brain region controlling movement
visual cortex · prefrontal cortex · cerebellum · basal ganglia · hippocampus
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