Incremental comprehension of pitch relationships in written music: Evidence from eye movements.
To investigate how proficient pianists comprehend pitch relationships in written music when they first encounter it, we conducted two experiments in which proficient pianists' eyes were tracked while they read and played singleline melodies. In Experiment 1, participants played at their own speed; i...
| Publicado en: | Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Vol. 71; no. 1; pp. 211 - 220 |
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