Better dual-task processing in simultaneous interpreters

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue OCT, 2015, Pages

  Strobach, Tilo ^a,b   Becker, Maxi ^c   Schubert, Torsten ^b   Kühn, Simone ^c,d  

^a Asklepios Medical School Hamburg   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dual tasks; Executive functions; Simultaneous interpreting; Task coordination

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947295856     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01590     Document Type: Article

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