This bestselling textbook, now fully updated, introduces students, researchers and
practitioners to the fast-developing discipline of Interpreting Studies. Written by one of the …

The Bilingual Advantage in Executive Functioning Hypothesis is a ground-breaking book
that explores one of the liveliest debates in bilingualism and cognitive psychology. It …

With a strong focus on interdisciplinarity, the handbook surveys concepts and methods in
neighbouring disciplines that are concerned with cognition and how they relate to …

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 …

Introduction Previous research on performance in interpreting has focused primarily on the
influence of interpreting experience on executive functions, such as shifting, updating, and …

The manuscript covers some methodological issues related to the development of Ukrainian
university students' discourse-oriented translation competence in Chinese and English as …

This chapter focuses on the processing mechanisms underlying simultaneous conference
interpreting (SI) as the object of most investigations on cognitive processing in the …

Interpreting is a highly complex activity that not only demands proficient linguistic expertise,
but also non-linguistic abilities such as non-linguistic cognitive performance (Macnamara …

The concept of working memory supposes a dedicated limited capacity system underlying
human thought that processes, maintains and stores information during a short period of …

Aging is associated with a high prevalence of neural and cognitive changes, which may
impair life quality while placing a significant burden on the healthcare system and the …