The influence of expertise in simultaneous interpreting on non-verbal executive processes Yudes Gómez, Carolina Macizo Soria, Pedro Bajo Molina, María Teresa Simultaneous interpreting Bilingualism Executive processes Cognitive flexibility Inhibitory processes This study aimed to explore non-verbal executive processes in simultaneous interpreters. Simultaneous interpreters, bilinguals without any training in simultaneous interpreting, and control monolinguals performed the Wisconsin card sorting task (WCST, Experiment 1) and the Simon task (Experiment 2). Performance on WCST was thought to index cognitive flexibility while Simon task performance was considered an index of inhibitory processes. Simultaneous interpreters outperformed bilinguals and monolinguals on the WCST by showing reduced number of attempts to infer the rule, few errors, and few previous-category perseverations. However, simultaneous interpreters presented Simon effects similar to those found in bilinguals and monolinguals. Together, these results suggest that experience in interpreting is associated with changes in control processes required to perform interpreting tasks. 2021-05-21T08:04:59Z 2021-05-21T08:04:59Z 2011-10-28 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Yudes C, Macizo P and Bajo T (2011) The influence of expertise in simultaneous interpreting on non-verbal executive processes. Front. Psychology 2:309. doi: [10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00309] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/68605 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00309 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 3.0 España Frontiers Research Foundation