Afasia de Wernicke y Afasia de Conducción: Dos Trastornos Neurológicos Asociados Al Daño Cerebral Adquirido

In clinical terms, aphasia refers to various forms of alteration in the language processing, which may occur along withmotor strokes of greater or lesser severity (Kittredge et al., 2006). The Systematic analysis of aphasia and location research of language functions began in the second half of the nineteenth century with the contributions of Paul Broca in 1861 and Karl Wernicke in 1874, adopting a localizationist approach. Broca identified the lower area and of the left frontal lobe as the area responsible for language engine, while Wernicke pointed to the posterior region of the lobe left temporal as the center responsible for sensory language.