APFCC+-+Wernicke


 * APFCC:**
 * Theorist**: Carl Wernicke, German neurologist
 * Study** **of**: Localisation of function
 * Year**: 1874
 * Summary:**
 * Aim:** Investigate whether an area in the left temporal lobe was responsible for speech processing
 * Procedures:**Observational method (observed brain damaged patients)


 * Findings:** People with Wernicke's aphasia will:
 * Speak in regular pace but interchange certain words for others, so sentences can be impossible to comprehend
 * Difficulty in understanding speech
 * Speech is unaffected, but do not understanding that what they're saying is wrong
 * Reading can be impossible
 * Do not understand what others say
 * Conclusions:** Patients with sustained damage to the left temporal cortex/had a lesion in the posterior left temporal lobecould speak and produce speech, but it didn't have significant meaning. They couldn't understand what or why theywere saying it.

Strengths: Limitations:
 * Criticisms:**
 * Supported by many later conducted studies
 * Became basis for other findings on Broca and Wernicke's aphasia and Wernicke's model
 * Results and findings only of patients with brain damage, cannot be generalised to normal people

Blue book page 40
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