KROK 1 2023 – Question 81 · KROK (Medicine) · Human Anatomy
As a result of cerebral hemorrhage, the patient developed impaired speech perception (sensory aphasia). What brain structure is likely to be damaged in this case?
- A. Superior temporal gyrus
- B. Inferior frontal gyrus
- C. Inferior temporal gyrus
- D. Postcentral gyrus
- E. Superior frontal gyrus
Hint
Sensory aphasia is a failure to understand speech, so recall where Wernicke's area lies in the dominant hemisphere, close to the auditory cortex.
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