The Relation between the Working Memory Skills of Sign Language Interpreters and the Quality of Their Interpretations

Autor/inn/en	Van Dijk, Rick; Christoffels, Ingrid; Postma, Albert; Hermans, Daan
Titel	The Relation between the Working Memory Skills of Sign Language Interpreters and the Quality of Their Interpretations
Quelle	In: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 15 (2012) 2, S.340-350 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1366-7289
DOI	10.1017/S1366728911000198
Schlagwörter	Deaf Interpreting; Sign Language; Short Term Memory; Correlation; Scores; Oral Language; Task Analysis; Phonology; Auditory Stimuli; Retention (Psychology); Speech + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gebärdensprache; Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Korrelation; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Aufgabenanalyse; Fonologie; Auditive Stimulation; Merkfähigkeit; Speaking; Sprechen
Abstract	In two experiments we investigated the relationship between the working memory skills of sign language interpreters and the quality of their interpretations. In Experiment 1, we found that scores on 3-back tasks with signs and words were not related to the quality of interpreted narratives. In Experiment 2, we found that memory span scores for words and signs under oral articulatory suppression were related to the quality of interpreted narratives. We argue that the insensitivity to articulatory suppression in memory span tasks reflects the interpreters' ability to bind information from multiple sources in episodic memory. This enhanced ability leads to less reliance on the retention of information from the source language in memory during interpreting, and will positively affect the quality of interpretations (Padilla, Bajo & Macizo, 2005). Finally, in contrast to previous studies on the memory spans for signs and words (Hall & Bavelier, 2010), we found that the memory spans scores for spoken words and signs were equally large. We argue that the use of a large set Pholoof phonologically complex stimuli in the present study may have stimulated participants to use a speech-based code to store and retain the signs in short-term memory. (As Provided).
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