ArticleBrain and cognition2020
Semantic and attentional networks in bilingual processing: fMRI connectivity signatures of translation directionality.
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- A Synthetic Review of Cognitive Load in Distance Interpreting: Toward an Explanatory Model.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Language Familiarity and Proficiency Leads to Differential Cortical Processing During Translation Between Distantly Related Languages.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Effects of Directionality on Interpreting Performance: Evidence From Interpreting Between Chinese and English by Trainee Interpreters.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Optical Mapping of Brain Activity Underlying Directionality and Its Modulation by Expertise in Mandarin/English Interpreting.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
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Abstract
Comparisons between backward and forward translation (BT, FT) have long illuminated the organization of bilingual memory, with neuroscientific evidence indicating that FT would involve greater linguistic and attentional demands. However, no study has directly assessed the functional interaction between relevant mechanisms. Against this background, we conducted the first fMRI investigation of functional connectivity (FC) differences between BT and FT. In addition to yielding lower behavioral outcomes, FT was characterized by increased FC between a core semantic hub (the left anterior temporal lobe, ATL) and key nodes of attentional and vigilance networks (left inferior frontal, left orbitofrontal, and bilateral parietal clusters). Instead, distinct FC patterns for BT emerged only between the left ATL and the right thalamus, a region implicated in automatic relaying of sensory information to cortical regions. Therefore, FT seems to involve enhanced coupling between semantic and attentional mechanisms, suggesting that asymmetries in cross-language processing reflect dynamic interactions between linguistic and domain-general systems.
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