Keywords

• This paper aims to underline some questions about Translation Studies and in particular it investigates the link between translation and mind
• this is to say
• the interconnection between the neurophysiology of the brain and the translation process. The translation process
• as a decoding and subsequent coding operation
• implies on the one hand
• the use of cognitive processing tasks delegated to the right hemisphere
• and on the other hand
• the activation of long-term memory in the left hemisphere
• enabling also the semantic memory represented in the temporal lobes. The awareness of how the brain is involved in translation processes
• of which brain areas are activated or inhibited
• forms part of that renewal process of translation that sees the application of neuroscience as a tool to make an optimal transposition of prototext into metatext