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Simultaneous interpretation selectively influences working memory and attentional networks.

Julia Morales¹, Francisca Padilla¹, Carlos J Gómez-Ariza²

¹Brain, Mind and Behavior Research Center, University of Granada, C/Profesor Clavera s/n, 18071 Granada, Spain.

Acta Psychologica

|January 12, 2015

Summary

Professional interpreters show enhanced cognitive skills, like updating and attention, that transfer to other domains. This suggests domain-specific skill transfer from simultaneous interpreting experience.

Keywords:

Alertness Expertise Orienting Simultaneous interpreting Updating

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Neuroscience
Linguistics

Background:

Expertise in one domain can lead to skill transfer to other domains with similar cognitive demands.
Simultaneous interpreters develop high working memory capacity, but transfer of other cognitive skills remains understudied.
Cognitive processes like updating and attention are crucial for interpretation but their transfer is not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the transfer of cognitive skills, specifically updating and attention, in professional simultaneous interpreters.
To determine if expertise in simultaneous interpreting enhances cognitive functions beyond working memory.
To explore how simultaneous interpreting experience modulates interactions within attentional networks.

Main Methods:

Experiment 1: Compared updating skills between interpreters and a control group using a dual n-back task.
Experiment 2: Utilized the ANTI-V task to assess differences in attentional network interactions between interpreters and non-interpreters.
Assessed conflict resolution, alertness, and orienting networks within attentional systems.

Main Results:

Interpreters significantly outperformed the control group in updating skills, as measured by the n-back task.
No group differences were observed in conflict resolution abilities.
Simultaneous interpreting experience differentially modulated interactions between alertness and orienting attentional networks.

Conclusions:

Experience in simultaneous interpreting leads to the transfer of specific cognitive skills, such as updating and attention.
The observed transfer appears to be domain-specific, affecting cognitive processes most relevant to interpreting tasks.
Findings suggest that simultaneous interpreting training enhances cognitive flexibility and attentional control.