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The team chose to examine Broca's and Wernicke's areas because language-based experiments are easy to conduct.
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First, Wernicke's area, the part responsible for understanding individual words, was more active in autists than non-autists.
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If the person next to you tells you to shut up, Wernicke's area (left-hand side) will process his imprecations.
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My mother, herself an alcoholic and anorexic, had literally drunk herself into oblivion (she was later diagnosed with Wernicke's Syndrome, a form of alcohol-induced dementia).
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The language centres of the brain, known as Broca's area and Wernicke's area, after the 19th-century researchers who discovered them, are part of the cerebral cortex on the left-hand side of the organ.
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