Japan Society for the Promotion of Science:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Date (from‐to) : 2016/04 -2019/03
Author : Kawachi Isami
In this study, we analyzed eye gaze during the reading of sheet music prior to sight-singing without performance, in subjects who were college students at a primary teacher's college. The subjects were comprised two groups: 36 experienced students and 29 novice students. The music was displayed on the monitor of an eye-tracker system. The composition was separated into six areas of interests (AOI), and each subject's fixation count and fixation length were recorded for each AOI.
Students who had experienced musical education could read all measures evenly. Students who did not have experience of musical education showed longer fixation length per each fixation count. The efficient reading of the music by experienced students appears when they read it with fewer fixation counts and shorter fixation length.