| Auditory
System: Speech Areas |
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| • | Classical
division on basis of |
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| aphasia
following lesions: |
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| – | Broca’s
area: understand |
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| language
but unable to speak |
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| or
write |
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| – | Wernicke’s
area: speaks but |
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| cannot
understand |
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| • | Current
understanding: not uniform areas. Rather, |
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| category-specific
with strongest activation proximal to the |
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| sensory
or motor area associated with that category: |
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| – | Words
for manipulable objects (tools) activate reaching / grasping |
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| motor
areas |
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| – | Words
for movement activate next to visual motion areas |
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| – | Words
for complex objects (faces) activate visual recognition areas |
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