Disabilities
in Gifted Children
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I am a musician.When I am sight-reading a piece of music, my eyes constantly glance forward at the next few bars:
Essentially, I play from intermittently refreshed short term memory.
What is stored in my short term memory is a representation of the next musical phrase – a kind of temporal map of the next few seconds that schedules the occurrence of each of the next few notes in the music. The representation itself takes only a fraction of a second to store, and yet I do not perceive it as “speeded up music”. Instead, it feels like complete foreknowledge of the next musical phrase,
with tempo intact.
What happens next is that I translate that “virtual” representation of several seconds’ worth of music into a real-time series of motor actions, resulting in a real-time rendering of the music itself; while I am doing this, I am also simultaneously glancing ahead and storing the next phrase, and so on.
Several questions present themselves:
Elizabeth Liddle, MA, Dip.Arch
