Silent reading of music and texts; eye movements and integrative reading mechanisms

This study investigates to what extent structural units defined by physical and structural markers elicit different eye movement patterns when reading contrasting stimuli of music and verbal texts. Eye movements were tracked and compared in ten musicians undergoing Bachelor’s degrees as they silentl...

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Main Authors: Michel André Cara, Gabriela Gómez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Bern Open Publishing 2016-10-01
Series:Journal of Eye Movement Research
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Online Access:https://bop.unibe.ch/JEMR/article/view/2530
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description This study investigates to what extent structural units defined by physical and structural markers elicit different eye movement patterns when reading contrasting stimuli of music and verbal texts. Eye movements were tracked and compared in ten musicians undergoing Bachelor’s degrees as they silently read six texts and six pieces of music for piano: the music was contemporary, in modal style, and the style of the texts was informative and literary. Participants were music students at Universidad de Chile studying for Bachelor’s degrees. Information integration for both local (intrasentence/phrase) and global (intersentence/phrase) levels of processing was assessed through regressive fixations at the first pass and re-reading stages. Memory involvement in musical and verbal processing was investigated using verbal working memory and spatial memory tasks, suggesting a link between spatial memory and the reading of contemporary music. Both local and global integrative controls vary according to the reading stages, with differences between music styles and text types. These differences relate to information intake and integrative reading mechanisms. Despite the fact that musicians used different strategies for processing verbal and musical information, no cross-patterns of individual reading strategies were observed between conditions. Although the underlying processes are different, resource-sharing between the two domains cannot be ruled out.
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spelling doaj.art-777d2817a27349a8bf44589accdfd3f72022-12-21T22:33:15ZengBern Open PublishingJournal of Eye Movement Research1995-86922016-10-019710.16910/jemr.9.7.2Silent reading of music and texts; eye movements and integrative reading mechanismsMichel André Cara0Gabriela Gómez1Music Institute (IMUS), Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso. Pilcomayo 478 Cerro Concepción - Valparaíso CHILE Tel: +56 9 52195419Universidad de Chile Periodista José Carrasco Tapia, 75 SantiagoThis study investigates to what extent structural units defined by physical and structural markers elicit different eye movement patterns when reading contrasting stimuli of music and verbal texts. Eye movements were tracked and compared in ten musicians undergoing Bachelor’s degrees as they silently read six texts and six pieces of music for piano: the music was contemporary, in modal style, and the style of the texts was informative and literary. Participants were music students at Universidad de Chile studying for Bachelor’s degrees. Information integration for both local (intrasentence/phrase) and global (intersentence/phrase) levels of processing was assessed through regressive fixations at the first pass and re-reading stages. Memory involvement in musical and verbal processing was investigated using verbal working memory and spatial memory tasks, suggesting a link between spatial memory and the reading of contemporary music. Both local and global integrative controls vary according to the reading stages, with differences between music styles and text types. These differences relate to information intake and integrative reading mechanisms. Despite the fact that musicians used different strategies for processing verbal and musical information, no cross-patterns of individual reading strategies were observed between conditions. Although the underlying processes are different, resource-sharing between the two domains cannot be ruled out.https://bop.unibe.ch/JEMR/article/view/2530Eye-movementsintegrative mechanismsmusic readingtext readingworking memoryspatial memory
spellingShingle Michel André Cara
Gabriela Gómez
Silent reading of music and texts; eye movements and integrative reading mechanisms
Journal of Eye Movement Research
Eye-movements
integrative mechanisms
music reading
text reading
working memory
spatial memory
title Silent reading of music and texts; eye movements and integrative reading mechanisms
title_full Silent reading of music and texts; eye movements and integrative reading mechanisms
title_fullStr Silent reading of music and texts; eye movements and integrative reading mechanisms
title_full_unstemmed Silent reading of music and texts; eye movements and integrative reading mechanisms
title_short Silent reading of music and texts; eye movements and integrative reading mechanisms
title_sort silent reading of music and texts eye movements and integrative reading mechanisms
topic Eye-movements
integrative mechanisms
music reading
text reading
working memory
spatial memory
url https://bop.unibe.ch/JEMR/article/view/2530
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