Table 2.
Mean and standard deviation of emotional potency and emotional arousal scores, as well as classifier performance across two background conditions and two time points.
Instrumental music group (n = 38) | Vocal music group (n = 39) | |||
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Positive instrumental | Negative instrumental | Positive vocal | Negative vocal | |
M ± SD | M ± SD | M ± SD | M ± SD | |
Pre-test emotional state | ||||
Valence | 4.579(0.92) | 4.37(0.85) | 4.79(0.83) | 4.51(0.94) |
Arousal | 4.53(1.22) | 4.45(1.11) | 4.74(1.09) | 4.80(1.03) |
Post-test emotional state | ||||
Valence | 6.53(1.01) | 3.37(1.02) | 6.9(1.02) | 2.44(0.91) |
Arousal | 6.03(1.00) | 5.61(0.95) | 6.97(0.93) | 5.87(0.89) |