The association of eye movements and performance accuracy in a novel sight-reading task
The present study investigated how eye movements were associated with performance accuracy during sight-reading. Participants performed a complex span task in which sequences of single quarter note symbols that either enabled chunking or did not enable chunking were presented for subsequent serial r...
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| description | The present study investigated how eye movements were associated with performance accuracy during sight-reading. Participants performed a complex span task in which sequences of single quarter note symbols that either enabled chunking or did not enable chunking were presented for subsequent serial recall. In between the presentation of each note, participants sight-read a notated melody on an electric piano in the tempo of 70 bpm. All melodies were unique but contained four types of note pairs: eighth-eighth, eighth-quarter, quarter-eighth, quarter-quarter. Analyses revealed that reading with fewer fixations was associated with a more accurate note onset. Fewer fixations might be advantageous for sight-reading as fewer saccades have to be planned and less information has to be integrated. Moreover, the quarter-quarter note pair was read with a larger number of fixations and the eighth-quarter note pair was read with a longer gaze duration. This suggests that when rhythm is processed, additional beats might trigger re-fixations and unconventional rhythmical patterns might trigger longer gazes. Neither recall accuracy nor chunking processes were found to explain additional variance in the eye movement data. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f8adb5bd288845af80fb1275fef4d0e22022-12-21T19:34:07ZengBern Open PublishingJournal of Eye Movement Research1995-86922021-10-01144The association of eye movements and performance accuracy in a novel sight-reading taskLucas Lörch0University of MannheimThe present study investigated how eye movements were associated with performance accuracy during sight-reading. Participants performed a complex span task in which sequences of single quarter note symbols that either enabled chunking or did not enable chunking were presented for subsequent serial recall. In between the presentation of each note, participants sight-read a notated melody on an electric piano in the tempo of 70 bpm. All melodies were unique but contained four types of note pairs: eighth-eighth, eighth-quarter, quarter-eighth, quarter-quarter. Analyses revealed that reading with fewer fixations was associated with a more accurate note onset. Fewer fixations might be advantageous for sight-reading as fewer saccades have to be planned and less information has to be integrated. Moreover, the quarter-quarter note pair was read with a larger number of fixations and the eighth-quarter note pair was read with a longer gaze duration. This suggests that when rhythm is processed, additional beats might trigger re-fixations and unconventional rhythmical patterns might trigger longer gazes. Neither recall accuracy nor chunking processes were found to explain additional variance in the eye movement data.https://bop.unibe.ch/JEMR/article/view/7620Eye movementsmusical performancesight-readingMIDI datacomplex span task |
| spellingShingle | Lucas Lörch The association of eye movements and performance accuracy in a novel sight-reading task Journal of Eye Movement Research Eye movements musical performance sight-reading MIDI data complex span task |
| title | The association of eye movements and performance accuracy in a novel sight-reading task |
| title_full | The association of eye movements and performance accuracy in a novel sight-reading task |
| title_fullStr | The association of eye movements and performance accuracy in a novel sight-reading task |
| title_full_unstemmed | The association of eye movements and performance accuracy in a novel sight-reading task |
| title_short | The association of eye movements and performance accuracy in a novel sight-reading task |
| title_sort | association of eye movements and performance accuracy in a novel sight reading task |
| topic | Eye movements musical performance sight-reading MIDI data complex span task |
| url | https://bop.unibe.ch/JEMR/article/view/7620 |
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