Cognitive load in simultaneous interpreting: Existing theories - New models

Interpreting

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 176-204

  Seeber, Kilian G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Attention; Capacity theory; Cognitive load; Syntactic complexity; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960249274     PISSN: 13846647     EISSN: 1569982X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/intp.13.2.02see     Document Type: Article

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