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AUTHOR
Thierry Baccino
Do graphical overviews facilitate or hinder comprehension in hypertext?
Educational hypertexts usually include graphical overviews, conveying the structure of the text schematically with the aim of fostering comprehension. Despite the claims about their relevance, there is currently no consensus on the impact that hypertext overviews have on the reader's comprehension. In the present paper we have explored how hypertext overviews might affect comprehension with regard to (a) the time at which students read the overview and (b) the hypertext difficulty. The results from two eye-tracking studies revealed that reading a graphical overview at the beginning of the hypertext is related to an improvement in the participant's comprehension of quite difficult hypertexts…
Expert musical reading is supported by activation of harmony rules during cross-modal integration
International audience; Multisensory integration of musical information is an important process in music reading. Integrate many sensory inputs (visual, auditory, motor) into a coherent pathway emerges during development of musical skill. We hypothesize that more skilled musicians can retrieve information across auditory and visual modalities, activating harmony rules as retrieval cues. The aim of the present research is to investigate this issue using the eye-tracking technique. Musicians (experts and non-experts) were asked to detect as fast as possible a modified note between listening and reading phases. Randomized fragments of classical music were sequentially versus simultaneously dis…
Pupillometry, a complementary tool to sensory analysis
Pupillometry, a complementary tool to sensory analysis. 30. Pupil Colloquium
Sight-reading expertise: cross-modality integration investigated using eye tracking
International audience; It is often said that experienced musicians are capable of hearing what they read (and vice versa). This suggests that they are able to process and to integrate multimodal information. The present study investigates this issue with an eye-tracking technique. Two groups of musicians chosen on the basis of their level of expertise (experts, non-experts) had to read excerpts of poorly-known classical piano music and play them on a keyboard. The experiment was run in two consecutive phases during which each excerpt was (1) read without playing and (2) sight-read (read and played). In half the conditions, the participants heard the music before the reading phases. The exc…
La lecture numérique
International audience; La lecture numérique n’est pas équivalente à la lecture sur papier. Depuis plus d’une vingtaine d’années, les données montrent un déficit général de la perception et de la compréhension, lié à l’emploi des supports électroniques. Ce problème est plus que jamais d’actualité avec le développement croissant des réseaux informatiques, des bibliothèques virtuelles, des logiciels multimédia, des liseuses et des tablettes qui impliquent de nouveaux comportements et de nouvelles compétences du lecteur. L’ouvrage synthétise les découvertes et les développements théoriques apportés par la psychologie cognitive et l’ergonomie cognitive dans le domaine de la lecture numérique. T…
Pupillometry as a tool to better understand emotions driven by food perception
Pupillometry as a tool to better understand emotions driven by food perception. 5. european conference on Sensory consumer science of foods and beverages. A sense of inspiration