Music reading expertise affects visual change detection: Evidence from a music-related flicker paradigm
-
Published:2021-11-09
Issue:
Volume:
Page:174702182110569
-
ISSN:1747-0218
-
Container-title:Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
-
language:en
-
Short-container-title:Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Author:
Sheridan Heather1ORCID,
Kleinsmith Abigail L1
Affiliation:
1. University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY, USA
Abstract
To study the mechanisms and boundary conditions of expertise effects on change detection, we introduced a novel music-related variant of the flicker paradigm. Specifically, we monitored the eye movements of expert musicians (with 10 years of music experience) and non-musicians (who could not read music) while they located changes across two rapidly alternating versions of a music score, with a blank screen presented between each screen change. Relative to the non-musicians, experts were faster at change detection, with shorter fixations and larger saccade amplitudes. Expertise effects on accuracy and saccade amplitude were magnified for visually complex relative to simple music scores. Consistent with the assumptions of chunking and template theories of expertise, our results suggest that expert musicians can use chunking (i.e., perceptual grouping) mechanisms to facilitate perceptual encoding during change detection.
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Subject
Physiology (medical),General Psychology,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology,General Medicine,Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology,Physiology
Cited by
1 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献,注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献,订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献
1. Markers of musical expertise in a sight-reading task: An eye-tracking study.;Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition;2024-07-25