Wernicke's aphasia results in
A) patients who can speak normally but cannot make sense out of language.
B) patients who can understand language but cannot make normal speech sounds.
C) little observable differences to laypersons.
D) only temporary difficulty with speech and vision.

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Wernicke's aphasia, also known as receptive aphasia, is characterized by fluent speech that lacks meaning and significant difficulty in understanding spoken language. Patients can produce speech sounds but what they say may be nonsensical or irrelevant, and they have trouble understanding others.

Wernicke's Aphasia Results in