title: Expertise, Working Memory and Articulatory Suppression Effect: Their Relation with Simultaneous Interpreting Performance.
abstract: Simultaneous interpreting is a complex bilingual verbal activity that involves the auditory perception of an oral communication and the production of a coherent discourse. One of the cognitive functions underlying simultaneous interpreting is working memory. The aim of this work was to study the relationship between expertise, working memory capacity and articulatory suppression effect, and the ability to perform simultaneous interpreting. For this purpose, four working memory tasks and one simultaneous interpreting task were administered to thirty Spanish-speaking professional English interpreters. Results showed that simultaneous interpreting ability might be supported by the working memory´s capacity to store or process information, but also by the ability of the interpreter to cope with the articulatory suppression effect. We conclude that interpreters may have or develop resources to support the effect caused by articulatory suppression.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Research Institute, Faculty of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires (UBA).
authors.forename: Irene
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Injoque-Ricle
authors.affiliation: National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET).
authors.forename: Juan Pablo
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Barreyro
authors.affiliation: Psychology Research Institute, Faculty of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires (UBA).
authors.forename: Jesica
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Formoso
authors.affiliation: Psychology Research Institute, Faculty of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires (UBA).
authors.forename: Virginia I
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Jaichenco
keywords: articulatory suppression; simultaneous interpreting; working memory