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Minds between languages

Dr. Adolfo García

Ever wondered what happens in the brain of a translator or an interpreter? How we can unravel the mysteries of the multilingual mind? What do we know about cognitive activities during translation and interpreting? Join us as we interview diverse specialists about the inner workings of interlingual reformulation. Minds Between Languages is also on YouTube! Design and Idea: Adolfo M. García. Post-production: Natasa Pavlovic and Anne Catherine Gieshoff. This podcast is endorsed by the Translation,

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The hearts and minds of translators and interpreters

Minds between languages ·

2025/11/28

Hello and welcome to this new episode of Minds between Languages! Today, we talk with Ana María Rojo López, full professor at the University of Murcia (Spain), about emotion in translation and interpreting. Suggested readings Naranjo, B., & Rojo López, A. M. (2021). In and out of tune: The effects of musical (in)congruence on translation. Target. International Journal of Translation Studies, 33(1), 132–156. https://doi.org/10.1075/target.19076.nar Rojo, A., & Ramos Caro, M...

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32:25

Modelling competence levels in written translation

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2025/10/06

Hello and welcome again to Minds between Languages! Our guest today is Patricia Rodríguez-Inés, senior lecturer at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain). She will talk about translation competence. Suggested readings Hurtado Albir, A. & Rodríguez-Inés, P. (eds.) (2022). Towards a European framework of competence levels in translation. The PACTE group’s NACT project. MonTi (Monografías de Traducción e Interpretación). Special Issue 7. https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2022....

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Investigating "interpreter advantage"

Minds between languages ·

2025/07/21

Hello and welcome to Minds between languages. Our guest today is Binghan Zheng, professor in translation studies at Durham University, United Kingdom. He will talk about investigating "interpreter advantage". Suggested readings Zhang, X., Zheng, B.*, Wang, R. & He, H. (2025) Is interpreter advantage a gift or an effect of training? Cognitive changes and interpreting acquisition at the early stage of training. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. pp. 1-11. doi.org/10.1017/S136...

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31:13

Visual input and interpreting

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2025/04/08

Hello and welcome to a new episode to Minds between Languages! Today is with us associate prof. Agnieszka Chmiel from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznán (Poland). She will share with us her expertise on visual input in interpreting. Suggested readings Chmiel, A., Janikowski, P., & Cieślewicz, A. (2020). The eye or the ear? Source language interference in sight translation and simultaneous interpreting. Interpreting. International Journal of Research and Practice in Interpretin...

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36:35

Global English: interpreting non-native speakers

Minds between languages ·

2025/01/27

Hello and welcome to a new episode of Minds between Languages! Joining us today is Prof. Michaela Albl-Mikasa from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (Switzerland) who will be talking about English as a lingua franca and what it means for interpreters. Suggested readingsAlbl-Mikasa, M. & Gieshoff, A. C. (2024). Working with non-standard input in interpreting (research). In Christopher D. Mellinger, The Routledge handbook of interpreting and cognition (205-223).Albl-Mikasa, Mi...

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Translating in 'default mode'

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2024/12/16

Hello and welcome to a new installment of Minds between Languages. Today is joining us Prof. Sandra Halverson from the University of Agder, Norway, who will discuss with us Default translation and why Default Translation is not Literal translation. Suggested readingsHalverson, S. & Kotze, H. (2022). Sociocognitive constructs in Translation and Interpreting Studies: Do We Really Need Concepts Like Norms and Risk When We Have a Comprehensive Usage-based Theory of Language? In Contesti...

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38:14

Neuroimaging techniques in Cognitive Translation and...

Minds between languages ·

2024/10/14

Hello and welcome again to Minds between Languages! This time we are delighted to have as our guest Prof. Defeng Li who will share with us his insights on Translation, Cognition and Directionality. Suggested readingsVLC Lei, TI Leong, CT Leong, L Liu, CU Choi, MI Sereno, D Li, RS Huang (2024). Phase‐encoded fMRI tracks down brainstorms of natural language processing with subsecond precision. Human Brain Mapping 45 (2), e26617. doi: 10.1002/hbm.26617. (Corresponding author). Lin. X....

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66:10

Methods we live by

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2024/07/06

Hello and welcome to Minds between Languages! This special episode is hosted by Adolfo M. García from the Universidad de San Andres (Argentina). The episode features the round table discussion on methods in cognitive translation and interpreting studies which was held in Santiago de Chile in 2023 during the ICTIC4. The guests of this episode are: Assoc. Prof. Elisabet Tiselius (Stockholm University, Sweden), Prof. Michaela Albl-Mikasa (Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland)...

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35:45

The multilingual brain

Minds between languages ·

2024/05/12

Hello and welcome to this new episode of Minds between languages. Our guest today is Adolfo M. García, Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Center UdeSA, Argentina, who will talk about the multilingual brain. Suggested readingsGarcía, A. M. (2019). The Neurocognition of Translation and Interpreting. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.Pérez, G., Hesse, E., Dottori, M., Birba, A., Amoruso, L., Martorell Caro, M., Ibáñez, A. & García, A. M. (2022). The bilingual lexicon, back and forth: Elect...

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52:31

Publishing research in CTIS

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2024/03/03

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35:20

Embodied cognition in translator education

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2024/01/15

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