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The Effects of Distracted Inner Hearing on Sight-Reading

Clemens Wöllner

The University of Sheffield

Emma Halfpenny

The University of Sheffield

Stella Ho

The University of Sheffield

Kaori Kurosawa

The University of sheffield

The importance of inner hearing in musical sight-reading was investigated with an interference paradigm. In a repeated measures design, 20 music students sight-sang two melodies, one of those while listening to distracting music. Participants answered aspects of sight-reading ability and strategy in questionnaires and in semi-structured interviews. The number of mistakes in the sung melodies was calculated; in addition, expert listeners rated continuity/fluency and overall quality. Distracted inner hearing only led to significantly worse rating results for overall quality. Nevertheless, participants found inner hearing to be significantly more difficult with distracting music, and the number of mistakes is highly correlated with the experienced difficulty of inner hearing. Possible explanations and implications for further research are discussed.

Key Words: auditory representation • interference paradigm • music performance • selective attention • singing

Psychology of Music, Vol. 31, No. 4, 377-389 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/03057356030314003
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