García, A. M., Muñoz, E. & Kogan, B. (2019). Taxing the bilingual mind: Effects of simultaneous interpreting experience on verbal and executive mechanisms. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. Online: https://bit.ly/2tdblBW

Type of publication: 
article
Type of analysis: 
quantitative
Other population: 
Language: 
English
Abstract in a language other than English: 
Authors from TREC: 
More authors: 
Edinson Muñoz, Boris Kogan
Data collection (type of instrument only): 
On-screen activity recorders
Questionnaires
Other
Full reference: 
García, A. M., Muñoz, E. & Kogan, B. (2019). Taxing the bilingual mind: Effects of simultaneous interpreting experience on verbal and executive mechanisms. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. Online: https://bit.ly/2tdblBW.
Abstract in English: 

This paper reviews the neurocognitive particularities of subjects with sustained experience in simultaneous interpreting, a highly demanding form of bilingual processing. The literature converges into three broad empirical patterns. First, significant neurocognitive differences, including behavioral enhancements in verbal and executive domains, are observable after only one or two years of training. Second, such effects, both in interpreting students and/or professional interpreters, seem robust for crucial linguistic (e.g., translation) and executive (e.g., working memory) aspects of the activity, but not for more marginally relevant ones (e.g., conflict resolution) – suggesting that they are non-generalizable beyond directly taxed functions. Third, though more tentatively, some of the observed verbal and executive effects seem to be mutually independent and uninfluenced by other bilingual-experience-related factors (e.g., L2 competence), which could highlight their distinctive relation with interpreting practice. In sum, this particular model of expertise sheds novel light on the adaptive capacity of cognitive systems in bilinguals.

Population: 
Translation and/or interpreting professionals
Translation and/or interpreting students
Other data collection: 
Behavioral paradigms
Year: 
Friday, August 2, 2019
Keywords in a language other than English: 
English keywords: 
simultaneous interpreting
verbal processing
executive functions
expertise

 

Project initiator:        
https://wa.amu.edu.pl/wa/en/
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
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