The second language area to be discovered is called Wernicke's area, after C Wernicke, a German neurologist who discovered the area while studying patients w' had similar symptoms to Broca's area patients but damage to a different part of the brain. Wernicke's aphasia is the term for the disorder occurring upon damage to patient's Wernicke's area. Wernicke's aphasia does not only affect speech comprehensive People with Wernicke's aphasia also have difficulty recalling the names of objects often responding with words that sound similar, or the names of related things, as if the^ having a hard time recalling word associations