Wernicke's area is located in which lobe of the brain?

• A. Frontal lobe
• B. Temporal lobe
• C. Parietal lobe
• D. Occipital lobe

Answer: (B)

Wernicke's area is devoted to understanding language. It sits in the temporal lobe, typically in the posterior part of the superior temporal gyrus of the dominant hemisphere (usually the left). This location explains why its damage causes fluent but meaningfully jumbled speech with impaired comprehension—speech flows easily, but the content isn’t understood. By contrast, Broca's area, responsible for language production, is in the frontal lobe, while the occipital lobe handles vision and the parietal lobe processes sensing and spatial aspects. So the temporal lobe is the correct location for Wernicke's area.