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Introduction published In: Translation and Interpreting at the Interface of Cognition and Emotion
Edited by Ana María Rojo López and Purificación Meseguer Cutillas
[Translation, Cognition & Behavior 7:1] 2024
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Introduction

Swept or swayed by the tide of change?

Translation and interpreting at the interface of cognition and emotion

ORCiD logo with link | University of Murcia


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Published online: 10 October 2024
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https://doi.org/10.1075/tcb.00089.lop
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.On the structure and content of this special issue: Key topics and articles
    • 2.1Using time-annotated corpora to explore the effect of syntactic complexity on simultaneous interpreters’ cognitive load and stress
    • 2.2On the utility of multimodal analysis for translating the emotional and contextual nuances of expressive constructions
    • 2.3Cardiovascular response as a measure of immersion in audiovisual translation (AVT)
    • 2.4Facial expression as a measure of emotion in audio description (AD)
    • 2.5The impact of translation training on moral decision-making
    • 2.6Psychometric properties of survey translations
  • 3.Navigating the changing tides: Challenges and solutions
    • 3.1The need for a precise definition of cognitive load and stress
    • 3.2The difficulties to use gestures and facial expressions to measure emotions
    • 3.3The challenge to differentiate cognitive and emotional processes in physiological measures
    • 3.4The problems to isolate the effects of training on experimental interventions
    • 3.5The importance of psychometric validation
  • 4.Closing remark
  • References
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