Which is more costly in Chinese to English simultaneous interpreting, "pairing" or "transphrasing"? Evidence from an fNIRS neuroimaging study
Which is more costly in Chinese to English simultaneous interpreting, "pairing" or "transphrasing"? Evidence from an fNIRS neuroimaging study
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DOI：
10.1117/1.nph.5.2.025010
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发表时间：
2018-04-01
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5.3
通讯作者：
Yuan, Zhen
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作者：
Lin, Xiaohong;Lei, Victoria Lai Cheng;Yuan, Zhen
本研究探讨了两种汉英同声传译翻译策略背后的神经机制，这些翻译策略针对的是左侧前额叶皮质，该区域通常参与干扰控制和冲突解决，并被认为是在同声传译中起关键作用的大脑区域。与“配对”和“转译”两种策略相关联的脑激活与“非翻译”的脑激活进行了比较，“非翻译”在目的语产出中保持源语项目不变，被认为是一种不需要复杂的认知操作的双语加工策略。我们的研究结果显示，“配对”在Broca‘s区引发了最强烈和几乎立即的大脑激活，而“转调”在左侧PFC引起了最广泛和最强的整体激活。相比之下，“非翻译”在这些区域引起的大脑激活很少。这项工作是研究涉及不同认知控制水平的翻译策略的大脑激活的最早努力之一，它不仅为更好地理解同声传译背后的认知机制铺平了一条新的途径，而且也为进一步深入了解布罗卡区在控制一般认知控制中所起的作用提供了新的视角。(C)2018年光学仪器工程师学会(SPIE)
This study examined the neural mechanism underlying two translation strategies associated with Chinese to English simultaneous interpreting (SI) targeting the left prefrontal cortex (PFC), which is generally involved in the control of interference and conflict resolution and has been identified as the brain area that plays a pivotal role in SI. Brain activation associated with the two strategies including "pairing" and "transphrasing" were compared with that from "nontranslation," which keeps the source language item unchanged in the target language production and is considered as a tactic that does not require complex cognitive operation associated with bilingual processing effort. Our findings revealed that "pairing" elicited the strongest and almost immediate brain activation in the Broca's area, and "transphrasing" resulted in the most extensive and strongest activation overall in the left PFC. By contrast, "nontranslation" induced very little brain activation in these regions. This work, which represents one of the first efforts in investigating brain activation related to translation strategies involving different levels of cognitive control, will not only pave a new avenue for better understanding of the cognitive mechanism underlying SI but also provide further insight into the role that the Broca's region plays in domaingeneral cognitive control. (C) 2018 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)