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Principal Investigators on this project:
Cognitive Neuroscience
Project Objective: To improve foreign language professional performance by targeting the brain mechanisms impacting translation and summarization of corrupted or otherwise incomplete texts.
Project Definition: Cognitive neuroscience is the study of the brain and how it controls behavior. Such a brain-based approach is useful because it allows for a deeper investigation into how and why we possess certain skills and traits.
Project Importance:
- This research targets the causes for why some translators are more effective than others, and potential ways to improve performance. By identifying certain cognitive factors that are especially important for translation skill, we hope to:
- Improve training by targeting the skills that are in more need of improvement
- Identify more effective training methods using brain-based learning techniques
Project Background:
- Several cognitive factors are believed to be important in translation and summarization, such as:
- Working memory capacity
- Divergent thinking ability
- Cognitive control and attention allocation
Project Products: Report with recommendations for improving the comprehension and summarization of incomplete or degraded texts.
Project Reports:
Project Activities: Spanish language translators will be tested both at CASL and remotely at their work location. Large numbers of translators will be tested with a behavioral-only version of the experiment, and at CASL the same tasks will be administered as participants are being monitored by the EEG.
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