Wernicke's AreaIvan & Enno

1. Where?

2. Who?

3. When?

4. How?

5. What?

Frontal lobe Parietal lobe

Temporal lope

Occipital lobe

1.Where

Frontal lobe Parietal lobe

Temporal lope

Occipital lobe

Wernicke‘s Area

1.Where

Carl Wernicke• * 15. Mai 1848 Tarnowitz,

Prussia

• † 15. June 1905 Dörrberg, Germany

• Physician, anatomist, psychiatrist and neuropathologist

• German university professor

• The Aphasic Symptom Complex (1874)

2.Who

The Aphasic Symptom Complex

• diagnosis of aphasic disabilities

• measure level of performance

2.When / 3.How

Aim:

Procedure:

Hypothesis:

• post-mortem study

• new methods

• specific area of brain, responsible for language

What it does / damages

• Understanding of written & spoken language

• When damaged:

• Language is devoid of meaning

• hard to follow conversations and instructions

• “Wernickes aphasia“

5.What

Sources

• Psychology - IB Diploma Course Companian

• Foundations of Biopsychology- Andrew Wickens

• WERNICKE'S REGION–WHERE IS IT? - J.E.Bogen & G.M.Bogen† (2006)

• www.psychology.jrank.org

• www.neuropsychologycentral.com

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