Senses and your brain

Apart from the somatosensory "feel" map, there are other highly specialised functional areas of the brain for sensory input and output. The Wernicke (language) and Broca (hearing) areas are of particular historical and anatomical significance. In 1874, Carl Wernicke hypothesized a link between the left posterior section of the superior temporal gyrus and reflexive mimicking,

associated with sensory and motor images. Wernicke notices that patients with damage to this area had trouble forming words, called aphasia. Like most structures in the brain, Wernicke's and Broca's area have symmetry and are contained on both sides of the brain, The dominant hemisphere processes dominant word meanings such as "barista given, coffee." The non-dominant side has a role in processing subordinate meanings of ambiguous words when presented in a context, like coffee given the ambiguous word -shop- when "coffee shop" is mentioned.