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Nakahira, & Kitajima (2014)

Nakahira, K.T., & Kitajima, M. (2014). Understanding differences of eye movements patterns while reading musical scores between instructors and learners to design learner-centered teaching strategies. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computers in Education, 101-106.

 

Understanding differences of eye movements patterns while reading musical scores between instructors and learners to design learner-centered teaching strategies

While learning instruments playing, one engages in the following mental and motor activities; reading notes in a musical score, retrieving relevant information from long-term memory concerning how to play the notes, moving relevant body parts, and verifying his/her performance against the expected sound. The learner is required to coordinate these activities in the learning process. This paper assumes that how the process of coordination is carried out should depend on the degree of matching between the learner's skill and the musical score which should appear in the process of reading; visually encoding the to-be-played notes and verifying the sound from the instrument he/she has just played. This paper proposes a method for objectively measuring the degree of matching by using eye movements data while reading a musical score with hearing notes.

 

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