Researchers rewrite textbook on location of brain's speech processing center
Monday, January 30, 2012 - 15:00
in Psychology & Sociology
Scientists have long believed that human speech is processed towards the back of the brain's cerebral cortex, behind auditory cortex where all sounds are received -- a place famously known as Wernicke's area after the German neurologist who proposed this site in the late 1800s based on his study of brain injuries and strokes.