This nose-in- the-air "study" is brilliant academeze, arcane,
irrelevant and wildly outdated for people familiar with the extant
literature on the topic, such as one of a Bruno Repp of Yale or Daniel
Levitin if Stanford. As a recent study, what is spotlighted is the
fact that "music cognition" experts do not read each other's research
models, and obsolete work as shown by the piano playing eye surgeon is
so fancily dressed up as psychology "news." It would be a mere
nuisance if people did not realize that studies as these are proof if
one thing: whoever is donating money to such endeavors would do better
to pocket the money.
/IAS/jcmt
07.15.08
