Wernicke's area

Japanese: ウェルニッケ中枢 - ウェルニッケちゅうすう(英語表記)Wernicke's area
Wernicke's area
Also called the sensory speech center, this is the part of the speech center that is responsible for hearing, understanding, and remembering. It is named after its discoverer, C. Wernicke (1874). It is centered in the posterior part of the first temporal gyrus of the left cerebral cortex.

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Japanese:
感覚性言語中枢ともいい,言語中枢のうち聞いて理解し記憶することを司る部位。発見者 C.ウェルニッケにちなんで名づけられる (1874) 。左側大脳第1側頭回転後部を中心とする。

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