Definition The speech center in the conventional sense is not one, but two regions in the area of the cerebral cortex, i.e. in the central nervous system. The so-called motor speech center, also called the Broca’s area after its first descriptor, and the sensory speech center, also called the Wernicke’s area. Nowadays, however, it is … Language Center
Clinical evidence of the motor speech center Lesions in the area of the motor speech center are called Broca’s aphasia. Aphasia means as much as speechlessness. Broca’s aphasia results in characteristic symptoms that make it possible to distinguish it from Wernicke’s aphasia (see below). Thus, although the affected persons can still understand what is spoken … Clinical evidence of the motor speech center | Language Center