{"pk":26316,"title":"Music Reading Expertise Modulates Visual Spans in both Music Note and EnglishLetter Reading","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Here we investigated how music reading experience modu-lates visual spans in language reading. Participants wereasked to identify music notes, English letters, Chinese charac-ters, and novel symbols (Tibetan letters) presented at randomlocations on the screen while maintaining central fixation. Wefound that for music note reading, musicians outperformednon-musicians at some peripheral positions in both visualfields, and for English letter reading, musicians outperformednon-musicians at some peripheral positions in the RVF butnot in the LVF. In contrast, in both Chinese character andnovel symbol reading, musicians and non-musicians did notdiffer in their performance at peripheral positions. Since bothmusic and English reading involve a left-to-right reading di-rection and a RVF/LH advantage, these results suggest thatthe modulation of music reading experience on visual spans inlanguage reading depends on the similarities in the cognitiveprocesses involved.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Music reading expertise; visual span; Englishreading; Chinese reading; symbol reading"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/16q0h1gk","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Tze","middle_name":"Kwan","last_name":"Li","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Hong Kong","department":""},{"first_name":"Susana","middle_name":"T. L.","last_name":"Chung","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California Berkeley","department":""},{"first_name":"Janet","middle_name":"H.","last_name":"Hsiao","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Hong Kong","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26316/galley/15952/download/"}]}