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HUMAN LANGUAGE: Broca’s and Wernicke’s Aphasias Broca’s and Wernicke’s aphasias suggest s obvious organization of language in the brain through the Standard model. Individual aphasics in practice exhibit a wide variety of symptoms, and research has revealed that language areas are not located strictly in their prescribed areas as mentioned earlier, but are modular, often some distance away, or even branched out in some cases. Their work also suggests that the …

…mentioned suggest that our language faculty, our biological ability to use language, must be in some sense modular. Rather than being a formless whole, it must be divided into a number of specialized subcomponents; evident from Dr P.’s example where different parts of the brain handled different aspects of vision. Thirdly, Evidence shows indisputably, that what language areas control is language, and not merely the use of the vocal tract or of the ears.