Working memory tasks in interpreting studies

Autor:	Serena Ghiselli
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	Linguistics and Language Communication Language and Linguistics
Zdroj:	Translation, Cognition & Behavior. 5:50-83
ISSN:	2542-5285 2542-5277
DOI:	10.1075/tcb.00063.ghi
Popis:	Studies about working memory (WM) and interpreting have used a variety of methods and results are often conflicting. There is therefore the need to analyse the cognitive tasks which have been used so far to assess their effectiveness in detecting WM performance differences. This paper presents the findings of a meta-analysis that compares the results of interpreters and interpreting students (study group) to the results of non-interpreters (control group) in four cognitive tasks (reading span, n-back task, listening span and dual tasks). Interpreters show a significant WM advantage of medium size over non-interpreters in tasks based on verbal stimuli, but not in tasks based on non-verbal stimuli. In addition, differences are larger when there is a wider gap in interpreting expertise between the two groups.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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