Thanks so much for pointing this out.
I would participate in her study in a second, but I can't read music, at least with any facility.
Meanwhile, I thought this particular passage was tremendously insightful:
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An experienced player can look at a chord chart or scale pattern and play it easily – why? Because they are not playing the chart – they are responding to an internal representation – an embodied motor pattern, honed over years, of what the chart represents. But to a novice, who has not developed this embodiment – the visual diagram offers little in the way of motor or kinaesthetic information. This information may be provided by a teacher during a lesson, but if the teacher does not offer it – or if the student is learning alone from a method book (as is common – Degner & Lehmann, 2003; Berard, 1998) – then a student may become frustrated.
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Yep, that about sums it up for me.
This issue also arises for me when I watch an artist play something on youtube that I think I can replicate, but when I try to do it, my mind and my fingers/hands do not mesh. Unless you have the FEEL and the motor discipline, you are going to be "off."