Language comprehension is the ability of the human being to process and understand spoken and written language. This ability has helped us greatly throughout our evolutionary history. The ability to communicate effectively has allowed us to collaborate and create complex societies to face a hostile world. For this reason, in the brain we find biologically rooted structures, such as the Wernicke area.
Wernicke's area is closely linked to the primary auditory cortex, consistent with its role in understanding spoken language. Damage to this area disrupts the ability to understand language but leaves the ability to produce words intact.
