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Broca's area organises speech output while Wernicke's area decodes language meaning. The figure is taken from American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.

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Two cortical regions handle speech and comprehension

Broca's area organises speech output while Wernicke's area decodes language meaning Broca's area in the left frontal lobe assembles the motor sequences of speech. Wernicke's area at the back of the left temporal lobe links sounds with meaning. Damage to the first produces halting speech, while damage to the second produces fluent but nonsensical output. It sits in Mondo's human body collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Broca's area organises speech output while Wernicke's area decodes language meaning. The figure is taken from American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a human body fact?: Yes. It sits on the Human Body shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.