Which of the following is likely to be found in a patient with lesion in shaded area?
Wernicke's aphasia is caused by a lesion in the posterior superior temporal gyrus of the dominant hemisphere. It is characterized by impaired lan­guage comprehension, inability to repeat, and fluent speech output with paraphasic errors. The only associated neurologic sign may be a right superior quadrantanopia second~ to the proximity of the inferior optic radiation to Wernicke's area in the left temporal lobe.
Fluent speech output
Normal repetition
Acalculia
Dysarthric speech pattern