Titre
Cortical thickness increases after simultaneous interpretation training.
Type
article
Institution
UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté + institutions partenaires
Périodique
Auteur(s)
Hervais-Adelman, A.
Auteure/Auteur
Moser-Mercer, B.
Auteure/Auteur
Murray, M.M.
Auteure/Auteur
Golestani, N.
Auteure/Auteur
Liens vers les personnes
ISSN
1873-3514
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2017-04
Volume
98
Première page
212
Dernière page/numéro d’article
219
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Langue
anglais
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article
Publication Status: ppublish
Publication Status: ppublish
Résumé
Simultaneous interpretation is a complex cognitive task that not only demands multilingual language processing, but also requires application of extreme levels of domain-general cognitive control. We used MRI to longitudinally measure cortical thickness in simultaneous interpretation trainees before and after a Master's program in conference interpreting. We compared them to multilingual control participants scanned at the same interval of time. Increases in cortical thickness were specific to trainee interpreters. Increases were observed in regions involved in lower-level, phonetic processing (left posterior superior temporal gyrus, anterior supramarginal gyrus and planum temporale), in the higher-level formulation of propositional speech (right angular gyrus) and in the conversion of items from working memory into a sequence (right dorsal premotor cortex), and finally, in domain-general executive control and attention (right parietal lobule). Findings are consistent with the linguistic requirements of simultaneous interpretation and also with the more general cognitive demands on attentional control for expert performance in simultaneous interpreting. Our findings may also reflect beneficial, potentially protective effects of simultaneous interpretation training, which has previously been shown to confer enhanced skills in certain executive and attentional domains over and above those conferred by bilingualism.
PID Serval
serval:BIB_1B89E938767D
PMID
Date de création
2017-01-24T17:55:20.809Z
Date de création dans IRIS
2025-05-20T17:19:40Z