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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An area in the posterior temporal lobe of the left hemisphere of the brain involved in the recognition of spoken words.
Wiktionary
- n. The posterior section of the superior temporal gyrus in the dominant cerebral hemisphere, one of two parts of the cerebral cortex linked with speech (the other being Broca's area).
WordNet 3.0
- n. the auditory word center; located in the posterior part of the superior temporal convolution in most people
Etymologies
- After Karl Wernicke (1848-1905), German neurologist. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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