Receptive aphasia

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In medicine and neurology, receptive aphasia or Wernicke's aphasia is a subclass of fluent aphasias in which individuals have difficulty understanding written and spoken language because of damage to a distributed network of brain regions involved in language comprehension rather than a single isolated area. Patients with Wernicke's aphasia often have fluent speech, which is characterized by typical speech rate and effortless speech output, but the content may lack meaning or include incorrect or made-up words. Writing often reflects speech by lacking substantive content or meaning, and may contain paraphasias or neologisms, similar to how spoken language is affected. In most cases, motor deficits (i.e., hemiparesis) do not occur in individuals with Wernicke's aphasia. Therefore, they may produce a large amount of speech without much meaning. Individuals with Wernicke's aphasia commonly show anosognosia, meaning they may be unaware of their errors in speech and may not realize that their...

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