Classical music pianists of five different conservatory levels, from undergraduate to
professional, were tested on a sight-reading task with eye-movement recording. They had to …

The Trail-Making-Test (TMT) is one of the most widely used neuropsychological tests for
assessing executive functions, the brain functions underlying cognitively controlled thought …

The current meta-analysis was conducted on 12 studies comparing the eye movements of
expert versus non-expert musicians and attempted to determine which eye movement …

Music reading is the key to literacy for musicians in the Western music tradition. This high-
level activity requires an efficient extraction of the visual information from the score to the …

When sight-reading a score, a timpanist needs to decide in real-time which stick to use to
play a specific note while interpreting the musical material. Our main point of inquiry seeks to …

Introduction In this study, we examined the cognitive processes and physiological responses
involved in learning a flute piece by the composer Charles Koechlin among musicians of …

In a unique case-study approach in which I served as both the research participant and the
experimenter, I wore eye-tracking glasses while teaching a brief music lesson to two …

The ability to perform an unrehearsed piece of music, or sight-read, is a skill required by
music performers. In sight-reading, the performer reads and plays the music simultaneously …

Music-reading research has not yet fully grasped the variety and roles of different cognitive
mechanisms that underlie visual processing of music notation; instead, studies have often …

This study examines short-term improvement of music performances and oculomotor
behaviour during four successive executions of a brief musical piece composed by …