Neuroscience and Translation

In the past decades, researchers have established various theories and approaches to explore nature of translation, this “most complex type event yet produced in evolution cosmos” (Richard, 1953:250). Especially since inception Translation Studies as an academic discipline 1970s, translation scholars drawn extensively on tools, concepts, from other disciplines, such sociology, anthropology, psychology, biology their efforts many facets interpreting. Now, neuroscience came fore. As study nervous system, task is understand brain processes— how we perceive, act, learn, remember – explain behavior terms activities (Kandel et al., 2012, pp. 3-5). For neuroscientists explored human language remarkable studies development learning. Yet findings handles processing are still primarily based monolinguals. The mental process multilingual people aspects transfer between different languages remain largely unsettled. This inspired Maria Tymoczko neurological mechanisms involved translating, a field that she dubs one “known unknowns” (Tymoczko, 2012) believes will fundamentally influence way thought about ultimately illuminate including “black box” individual translator.