Damage to Wernicke's area may result in fluent speech that is nonsensical.

### Why this is right The material describes receptive aphasia after Wernicke's-area damage as speech that can remain fluent but be nonsensical. The key difficulty is comprehension, not simply the ability to produce fluent sounds. ### The concept A person may speak fluently while failing to understand language adequately or to produce meaningful content. This differs from expressive aphasia, which is associated with difficulty producing speech. ### Terms - **Wernicke's area**: a temporal-lobe region associated with understanding spoken and written language. - **Receptive aphasia**: a language disorder affecting comprehension, sometimes with fluent but nonsensical speech. - **Fluent speech**: speech produced with relatively smooth flow. ### Remember Fluent but nonsensical speech points toward a comprehension-related language problem.