Memory and language skills in simultaneous interpreters: The role of expertise and language proficiency

By Ingrid Christoffels, A. D. de Groot, Judith F. Kroll. 2006

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, General Health Professions, Language and Linguistics

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Parallel language activation during word processing in bilinguals: Evidence from word production in sentence context* (2013, background): “The results replicate similar findings in the literature (e.g., Christoffels et al., 2006; Costa et al., 2000; Hoshino & Kroll, 2007; Poarch & Van Hell, 2012; see the introduction for a discussion of other related studies).”
Effect of language proficiency and degree of formal training in simultaneous interpreting on working memory and interpreting performance: Evidence from Mandarin–English speakers (2012, methodology): “In a subsequent study by these researchers, Dutch– English interpreters were not found to differ from highly proficient Dutch teachers of English in word translation but they did show a higher working memory span as compared to that of the teachers (Christoffels et al., 2006: Exp. 2). Moreover, memo”
Language control in bilinguals: Monolingual tasks and simultaneous interpreting (2006, background): “A recent study by us (Christoffels et al., 2003), testing bilinguals without any previous experience in simultaneous interpreting, suggested the importance of fluent retrieval processes in interpreting. This study demonstrated a correlation between word translation and picture naming latencies on th”
Juggling Two Languages in One Mind (2008, background): “But interpreters have also been shown to have exceptional cognitive abilities, with particularly high working memory span (e.g., Christoffels et al., 2006) and some recent studies that suggest that under the same conditions in which ordinary bilinguals appear to inhibit the language in use, the…”
Language selectivity is the exception, not the rule: Arguments against a fixed locus of language selection in bilingual speech (2006, result): “Christoffels et al. (2006) compared the performance of three groups of bilinguals on picture naming and translation tasks and also on measures of cognitive capacity.”