Simultaneous interpreting and working memory capacity (Chapter 5)
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/btl.115.05tim" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/btl.115.05tim</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/btl.115.05tim" target="_blank" >10.1075/btl.115.05tim</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Simultaneous interpreting and working memory capacity (Chapter 5)
Original language description
The aim of the present exploratory study was to test whether a relationship exists between working memory capacity (WMC) and simultaneous interpreting (SI) performance measures in a sample of professional interpreters.There are two main findings. First,WMC in this sample shows predictable patterns in the structure of interpreters'working memory: there was a dissociation between verbal and spatial memory and a negative relationship between age on the one hand and WMC and general cognitive ability on theother. This negative relationship goes agains the hypothesis of WMC enlargement with interpreting experience. Secondly, WMC measures were only marginally significantly related to SI measures, and then only to those which have a predictable high memory component, such as figures and lists of nouns. The results suggest that WMC, where the focus is on storage and maintenance, may not be as important for professional SI as previously thought.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
AI - Linguistics
OECD FORD branch
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Project
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Continuities
N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Psycholinguistic and Cognitive Inquiries into Translation and Interpreting
ISBN
978-90-272-5855-7
Number of pages of the result
26
Pages from-to
101-126
Number of pages of the book
206
Publisher name
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Place of publication
Amsterdam / Philadelphia
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