Table 1.

Correlations (n) between musical aptitude, verbal ability, music training before 18 and general intelligence. Raw correlations are shown above the diagonal and partial correlations, controlling for general intelligence, are shown below the diagonal.

	Music aptitude	Verbal ability	Music training	General intelligence
Musical aptitude	-	.36**	.35**	.38**
		(N=1,336)	(N=1,742)	(N=2,830)
Verbal ability	.25**	-	.11**	.38**
	(N=1,334)		(N=1,305)	(N=1,689)
Music training	.35**	.08*	-	.07*
	(N=1,740)	(N=1,007)		(N=2,187)

^**p<.001,

^*p<.05.