Centre for Music and Science, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP, UK.
Sci Rep. 2019 Mar 28;9(1):5299. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-41445-1.
The use of interword separation has consistently been proven to enhance fluency in reading language scripts. At the same time, neurophysiological evidence has shown that music and language scripts can activate very similar neural circuitry that integratively encodes the symbols that comprise them. By analogy to interword separations in language, we hypothesize that visual separation cues in musical scores should facilitate music reading. We report an experiment in which separating short fragments of musical discourse by vertical white gaps in the notation enhanced sight-reading fluency by significantly reducing the number of mistakes that musicians made when reading the scores without previous preparation. These results are in accordance with a view of music reading as sharing cognitive strategies with language reading; they have significant implications for our understanding of the acquisition of musical literacy and for the design of musical scores, and for our knowledge of the sense-making processes involved in reading in general.
词间分隔的使用已被证明能提高阅读语言文字的流畅性。同时，神经生理学的证据表明，音乐和语言文字可以激活非常相似的神经回路，这些回路综合地编码了它们所包含的符号。类比于语言中的词间分隔，我们假设乐谱中的视觉分隔线索应该有助于音乐阅读。我们报告了一项实验，通过在乐谱记谱中垂直的白色间隙将音乐话语的短片段分隔开来，显著减少了音乐家在没有事先准备的情况下阅读乐谱时出错的次数，从而提高了视奏的流畅性。这些结果与将音乐阅读视为与语言阅读共享认知策略的观点一致；它们对我们理解音乐素养的习得以及乐谱的设计具有重要意义，也为我们理解一般阅读中的意义构建过程提供了知识。
