Table 2.
Characteristics of all the participants (n = 637) who completed the online experiments.
| Exp. | Number | Age Mean (min-max, SD) |
Self-reported gender | Music sophistication Mean (min-max, SD) |
Vividness abilities Mean (min-max, SD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 200 | 27.84 (19–65, 8.36) |
Female: 73 Male: 121 Other: 6 |
70.78 (18–122, SD = 18.10) | 4.82 (1–7, SD = 0.98) |
| 2 | 298 (including 101 from Exp. 1) | 29.03 (19–67, 9.43) |
Female: 98 Male: 194 Other: 4 No answer: 2 |
71.57 (18–126, SD = 18.55) | 4.81 (1–7, SD = 1.03) |
| 3 | 240 | 27.29 (19–62, 8.17) |
Female: 104 Male: 129 Other: 6 No answer: 1 |
68.16 (22–112, SD = 18.02) | 4.66 (1–7, SD = 1.10) |
| 4 | 98 | 34.98 (18–74, SD = 11.32) |
Female: 30 Male: 68 |
71.46 (29–114, SD = 19.78) | 4.79 (1–6.93, SD = 1.02) |
The music sophistication index was estimated with a subset (n = 18 items) of the Gold-MSI45 and the vividness abilities were estimated with the BAIS_V scale of the questionnaire designed by Halpern46. The participants of the different experiments do not significantly differ in terms of self-reported music sophistication and vividness abilities (both ANOVAs on the scores: p > 0.05).