How do simultaneous interpreters listen and speak at the same time?
As mentioned in the previous question, this is a topic of debate. In fact, neuroscientists and physiolinguists are still trying to figure out how interpreters do what they do: listen, analyze, understand, switch linguistic codes, express, monitor output and correct themselves when necessary. Scientists have studied interpreters at work in hopes of understanding more about the functioning of the human brain. Even interpreters themselves are hard-pressed to explain how they do it.
