Brains speed up perception by guessing what's next (2019)
This might be tangentially related  - I'm not sure. I've recently started playing jazz piano, after years of classical piano.<p>Now, I'm supposed to be a reasonably good sight reader, or at least that's what I thought. The improv part of jazz I'm not good at but I get, but I've also tried playing from transcriptions (Bill Evans in particular), and have found I'm extremely slow at reading the music.<p>After thinking about it, I suspect it's because the music makes no sense to me  so I can't guess what's coming ( which is what I do with classical music). So while I anticipate with classical music and just confirm after the fact/right when the note actually shows up, with Bill Evans I have to think hard and actually confirm everything.<p>My ears help but not much, since 'confirming' the sound is much harder with jazz than with classical music (it's unexpected , so again, there's some kind of delay between 'I hear the note' and 'ok that's right' while there's essentially no delay with classical music where my brain is kind of 'primed for acceptance'