ArticleJournal of eye movement research2022
A Meta-analysis on the Effect of Expertise on Eye Movements during Music Reading.
Article in Journal of eye movement research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- Classifying musical reading expertise by eye-movement analysis using machine learning.Frontiers in cognition · 2024Article
- Myogenic artifacts masquerade as neuroplasticity in the auditory frequency-following response.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Coupling of anticipation and breathing in expert flute performance: the influence of musical structure and practice.Frontiers in cognition · 2024Article
- An Eye Tracking Based Framework for Safety Improvement of Offshore Operations.Journal of eye movement research · 2023Article
- The effect of practice and musical structure on pianists' eye-hand span and visual monitoring.Journal of eye movement research · 2023Article
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Abstract
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 measures are expertise dependent during music reading. The total dataset of 61 comparisons was divided into four subsets, each concerning one eye-movement variable (i.e., fixation duration, number of fixations, saccade amplitude, and gaze duration). We used a variance estimation method to aggregate the effect sizes. The results support the robust finding of reduced fixation duration in expert musicians (Subset 1, g = -0.72). Due to low statistical power because of limited effect sizes, the results on the number of fixations, saccade amplitude, and gaze duration were not reliable. We conducted meta-regression analyses to determine potential moderators of the effect of expertise on eye movements (i.e., definition of experimental groups, type of musical task performed, type of musical material used or tempo control). Moderator analyses did not yield any reliable results. The need for consistency in the experimental methodology is discussed.
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