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2 terms starting with W
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Learn more about Wernicke's Area
Wernicke's Area
Located in the temporal lobes, this is an area of the brain concerned with producing speech (See also BROCA'S AREA).
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Learn more about White matter
White matter
White coloured nerve tissue in the brain made up of myelin covered axons, which transmit electrical signals through the nervous system. The white matter lies underneath the grey matter of the cerebral cortex and white matter tracts travel down through the brainstem and into the spinal cord.