is characterized by impaired language comprehension for both spoken and written language, caused by damage to Wernicke's area. Patients with Wernicke's aphasia can still speak with normal fluency and prosody, and follow grammatical rules with normal sentence structure. However, they may exhibit difficulty with repetition tasks, naming items, and written word spelling.

People with Wernicke's aphasia often exhibit other forms of aphasia. Phonemic paraphasia refers to making errors in the selection