Visual processing of musical syntax and its relationship to sight-reading ability.

PLoS One · 2026 · PMC12978459 · PMID 41811875

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Participants who made more pitch errors during the sight-reading task showed generally slower RTs in the self-paced reading task, with this effect being significant in the tonal condition ( b = 3.44, p = .033), while a similar positive trend was observed in the atonal condition, it did not reach statistical significance ( b = 1.39, p = .060).

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