Cognitive Mechanisms in Temporally Controlled Rhythm Reading

Music-reading research has not yet fully grasped the variety and roles of different cognitive mechanisms that underlie visual processing music notation; instead, studies have often explored one factor at a time. Based on prior research, we identified three possible regarding during reading: symbol comprehension, anticipation, performance demands. We also summed up eye-movement indicators each mechanism. then asked which were needed to explain how note symbols are visually processed temporally controlled rhythm reading. In our eye-tracking study, twenty-nine participants performed simple rhythm-tapping tasks, in relative complexity consecutive was systematically varied. Eye-time span (i.e., “looking ahead”) first-pass fixation time target analyzed with linear mixed-effects modeling. As result, comprehension anticipation found support empirical data, whereas evidence for demands more ambiguous. Future could continue from here by exploring interplay these other mechanisms; general, argue music-reading should begin emphasize systematic creating testing models eye movements