Manual co-speech gestures can facilitate language comprehension, but do they influence
language comprehension in simultaneous interpreters, and if so, is this influence modulated …

Manual gestures and speech form a single integrated system during native language
comprehension. However, it remains unclear whether this hold for second language (L2) …

In the past two decades several studies conducted within various fields of knowledge
(sociolinguistics, psychology, psycholinguistics, ethnography, anthropology, gesture studies …

Simultaneous interpreting is a complex task where the interpreter is routinely involved in
comprehending, translating and producing language at the same time. This study assessed …

Simultaneous interpreting requires interpreters to listen to a source text while producing the
target text in a second language. In addition, the interpreter needs to process various types …

Previous studies have investigated the cognitive processes of simultaneous interpreting and
translation using eye-tracking. No study has yet utilized eye-tracking to investigate cognitive …

From an enactivist perspective, cognition can be described as embodied, since it is
determined by our bodily, multisensory, affective interaction with the environment, in …

Speakers in all cultures and ages use gestures as they speak (ie, cospeech gestures). There
have been different views in the literature with regard to whether and how a specific type of …

Simultaneous interpretation is a complex task that is assumed to be associated with a high
workload. To corroborate this association, we measured workload during three tasks of …

In what ways do native language (NL) speakers and foreign language (FL) learners differ in
understanding the same messages delivered with or without gestures? To answer this …