Domain-specific and domain-general contributions to reading musical notation

Musical practice may benefit not only domain-specific abilities, such as pitch discrimination and music performance, but also domain-general like executive functioning memory. Behavioral neural changes in visual processing have been associated with music-reading experience. However, it is still unclear whether there a ability to process musical notation. This study investigates the specificity of skills relevant simple decisions about Ninety-six participants varying experience answered short survey quantify notation completed test battery that assessed reading fluency accuracy at level individual note or sequence. To characterize how this relate we estimated general intelligence (as measured Raven’s Progressive Matrices) object-recognition measure by recently proposed construct o). We obtained reliable measurements on our various tasks found evidence for perception abilities were contribute performance specific differently, depending music.