In primates, left-inferior parietal-lobe association regions {Wernicke's area} {Wernicke area} can be in left-superior temporal lobe below lateral fissure, next to primary auditory cortex, at vision, audition, and somaesthetic cortical junction. Wernicke's area has no connections to limbic system. Broca's area and Wernicke's area connect through arcuate fasciculus.
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Wernicke's area damage causes alexia, agnosia, tactile aphasia, and word deafness but does not affect writing or hearing. Disconnecting Wernicke's area from motor centers causes apraxia. Wernicke's aphasia causes bad semantics, paraphasia, imprecise words, circumlocutions, and neologisms, but speech is fluent, rapid, articulated, and grammatical.
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