Disentangling cognitive and emotional load

episode 29

“Interpreters are not passive recipients of stress; they actively manage it.”
Assoc. Prof. Alper Kumcu

Hello and welcome again to Minds between Languages! In this installment we discuss cognitive and emotional load with Alper Kumcu, Associate professor at Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Ankara, Turkey.

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Suggested readings

Kumcu, A., & Duman, D. (202x). Disentangling cognitive and emotional load in interpreting: multimodal evidence from physiological and prosodic data. (currently under review in Target). https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/zjbf4_v1 (Preprint)

Kumcu, A., & Öztürk, A. (2023). Visual mental imagery and verbal working memory: evidence from consecutive interpreting. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 35(5), 545-560. http://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2023.2216917

Kumcu, A. (2023). Emotional language processing in bilingualism: Subjective affect and prosodic markers in simultaneous interpreting. Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 17(2), 194-211. https://doi.org/10.47777/cankujhss.1338278

Further resources

Personal website: https://alperkumcu.github.io

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