IN CONTRAST TO SIMILAR RESEARCH IN TEXT reading, research in the eye movements used to read music is relatively undeveloped. Though simpler measures such as the eye-hand span and perceptual span have been evaluated by numerous scholars, more complex phenomena such as context effects have yet to receive proper attention; this is largely the result of a lack of both focus on fine-grained structural properties (i.e., interval size, tonal-harmonic expectation) and a pool of hypotheses and paradigms informed by current models of music perception and cognition. To encourage further, more sophisticated research in eye movements and music reading, the present review discusses recent developments in the field and uses relevant conclusions to build a conceptual springboard for future research.
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December 2008
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December 01 2008
Eye Movements and Music Reading: Where Do We Look Next?
Jaime Madell,
Jaime Madell
Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Sylvie Hébert
Sylvie Hébert
Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Music Perception (2008) 26 (2): 157–170.
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Jaime Madell, Sylvie Hébert; Eye Movements and Music Reading: Where Do We Look Next?. Music Perception 1 December 2008; 26 (2): 157–170. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2008.26.2.157
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