Table 1.

Participant characteristics.

	Musical practice level				Statistics
	High	Intermediate	Low	No	F-value
Sex (female; male)	7; 1	6; 3	7; 2	8; 2
Handedness (left; right)	1; 7	3; 6	0; 9	2; 8
Age [years]	22.6	23.3	22.2	23.6	0.12
Years of education [years]	17.4	17.4	17.1	16.7	0.07
Accumulated practice time [h]	6275	2990	994	3	105.67⁎⁎⁎
Total years played [years]	14.5	9.3	8.1	0.1	27.01⁎⁎⁎
Musical knowledge score	17.9	15.7	12.4	7.4	19.53⁎⁎⁎
Physical activity [h/month]	5.6	15.1	15.8	21.4	1.67
PANAS score (positive)	33.5	34.1	31.3	33.2	0.36
PANAS score (negative)	17.1	16.6	18.9	17.0	0.18

Main musical instrument played
Musical practice level
High	5 Piano, 1 Organ, 2 Flute
Intermediate	5 Piano, 1 Harp, 1 Trumpet, 1 Flute, 1 Violin
Low	4 Piano, 1 Flute, 1 Saxophone, 1 Guitar, 1 Recorder, 1 Viola
No	n.a.

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