{"pk":27257,"title":"How does Music Reading Expertise Modulate Visual Processing of English Words?An ERP study","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Music notation and English word reading have similar visualprocessing requirements. It remains unclear how the twoskills influence each other. Here we investigated the modula-tion of music reading expertise on visual processing of Eng-lish words through an ERP study. Participants matched Eng-lish real, pseudo, and non-words preceded by musical seg-ments or novel symbol strings in a sequential matching task.Musicians showed smaller N170 amplitude in response toEnglish non-words preceded by musical segments than bynovel symbol strings in the right hemisphere. This effect wasnot observed in real or pseudo-words, or in any of non-musicians’ responses. Similar to English non-words, musicalsegments do not have morphological rules or semantic infor-mation, giving rise to this modulation effect. This findingsuggested a shared visual processing mechanism in the righthemisphere between music notation and English non-wordreading, which may be related to serial symbol processing assuggested by previous studies.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Music reading expertise; EEG; event-related po-tential (ERP); English word reading"}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5w62k12p","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Li","middle_name":"","last_name":"Tze Kwan","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Hong Kong","department":""},{"first_name":"Chan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hei Yan Veronica","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Hong Kong","department":""},{"first_name":"Luhe","middle_name":"","last_name":"v","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Hong Kong","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":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27257/galley/16893/download/"}]}