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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
The posterior section of the superior temporal gyrus in the dominant cerebral hemisphere, one of two parts of the cerebral cortex linked with speech (the other being Broca's area).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
the auditory word center; located in the posterior part of the superior temporal convolution in most people
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Wernicke's center
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: center, centre, nerve center, nerve centre
History
Named after Carl Wernicke, a German neurologist and psychiatrist.
Across languages
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