<P> Research using Transcranial magnetic stimulation suggests that the area corresponding to the Wernicke's area in the non-dominant cerebral hemisphere has a role in processing and resolution of subordinate meanings of ambiguous words--such as' ' river' ' when given the ambiguous word "bank ." In contrast, the Wernicke's area in the dominant hemisphere processes dominant word meanings (' ' teller' ' given' ' bank' '). </P> <P> Neuroimaging suggests the functions earlier attributed to Wernicke's area occur more broadly in the temporal lobe and indeed happen also in Broca's area . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> There are some suggestions that middle and inferior temporal gyri and basal temporal cortex reflect lexical processing...there is consensus that the STG from rostral to caudal fields and the STS constitute the neural tissue in which many of the critical computations for speech recognition are executed...aspects of Broca's area (Brodmann areas 44 and 45) are also regularly implicated in speech processing . <P>... the range of areas implicated in speech processing go well beyond the classical language areas typically mentioned for speech; the vast majority of textbooks still state that this aspect of perception and language processing occurs in Wernicke's area (the posterior third of the STG). </P> </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> There are some suggestions that middle and inferior temporal gyri and basal temporal cortex reflect lexical processing...there is consensus that the STG from rostral to caudal fields and the STS constitute the neural tissue in which many of the critical computations for speech recognition are executed...aspects of Broca's area (Brodmann areas 44 and 45) are also regularly implicated in speech processing . <P>... the range of areas implicated in speech processing go well beyond the classical language areas typically mentioned for speech; the vast majority of textbooks still state that this aspect of perception and language processing occurs in Wernicke's area (the posterior third of the STG). </P> </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr>

The wernicke area is the motor speech area of the frontal lobe