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Wernicke's Area
Carl Wernicke identified the temporal lobe region essential for language comprehension.
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Carl Wernicke identified the left posterior superior temporal gyrus as essential for language comprehension in 1874. Wernicke's area, connected to Broca's area via the arcuate fasciculus, completed the classical model of language localization in the brain.
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