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Eye movement in prima vista singing and vocal text reading

Berséus, Per (2002)
Cognitive Science
Abstract
An eye-tracking device was used in this pilot study to measure eye movement during prima vista singing and reading aloud. The common term eye-voice span is questioned, and a new terminology is proposed for the description of relations between

attention, point of fixation and vocal performance. The temporal distance

between the point of fixation and the vocal performance was measured and proved to be larger in vocal language reading than in musical sightreading. This distance is also related to the eye-voice span and the span of the window paradigm. Regressive saccades were found to be less frequent than expected from previous research on

silent language reading and music sightreading. It is suggested that the difference depends on... (More)
An eye-tracking device was used in this pilot study to measure eye movement during prima vista singing and reading aloud. The common term eye-voice span is questioned, and a new terminology is proposed for the description of relations between

attention, point of fixation and vocal performance. The temporal distance

between the point of fixation and the vocal performance was measured and proved to be larger in vocal language reading than in musical sightreading. This distance is also related to the eye-voice span and the span of the window paradigm. Regressive saccades were found to be less frequent than expected from previous research on

silent language reading and music sightreading. It is suggested that the difference depends on obscure definitions of the term regression. Furthermore, a sheet displaying

both text and notes was used to study the distribution of attention between

text and notes, showing that attention was almost equally shared. (Less)
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author
Berséus, Per
supervisor
organization
year
type
H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
subject
keywords
Computer science, music, eye-voice span, eye movement, eye-voice temporal distance, numerical analysis, systems, control, Datalogi, numerisk analys, system, kontroll
language
English
id
1329101
date added to LUP
2006-04-24 00:00:00
date last changed
2009-04-20 11:11:43
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  abstract     = {{An eye-tracking device was used in this pilot study to measure eye movement during prima vista singing and reading aloud. The common term eye-voice span is questioned, and a new terminology is proposed for the description of relations between

attention, point of fixation and vocal performance. The temporal distance

between the point of fixation and the vocal performance was measured and proved to be larger in vocal language reading than in musical sightreading. This distance is also related to the eye-voice span and the span of the window paradigm. Regressive saccades were found to be less frequent than expected from previous research on

silent language reading and music sightreading. It is suggested that the difference depends on obscure definitions of the term regression. Furthermore, a sheet displaying

both text and notes was used to study the distribution of attention between

text and notes, showing that attention was almost equally shared.}},
  author       = {{Berséus, Per}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Eye movement in prima vista singing and vocal text reading}},
  year         = {{2002}},
}