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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, Research, Empiricism and Cognition (TREC) network.

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Disentangling cognitive and emotional load

February 11, 2026 • Dr. Adolfo García • Season 1 • Episode 29

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Hello and welcome again to Minds between Languages! In this installment we discuss cognitive and emotional load with Alper Kumcu, Associate professor at Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Ankara, Turkey.

Suggested readings

Kumcu, A., & Duman, D. (202x). Disentangling cognitive and emotional load in interpreting: multimodal evidence from physiological and prosodic data. (currently under review in Target). https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/zjbf4_v1 (Preprint)

Kumcu, A., & Öztürk, A. (2023). Visual mental imagery and verbal working memory: evidence from consecutive interpreting. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 35(5), 545-560. http://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2023.2216917

Kumcu, A. (2023). Emotional language processing in bilingualism: Subjective affect and prosodic markers in simultaneous interpreting. Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 17(2), 194-211. https://doi.org/10.47777/cankujhss.1338278

Further resources

Personal website: https://alperkumcu.github.io

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This podcast is endorsed by the TREC Network - Translation, Research, Empiricism and Cognition.

Anne Catherine Gieshoff, Ph.D

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Nataša Pavlović, Ph.D

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