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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 12.
Published in final edited form as: Cogn Process. 2015 Oct 7;17(1):79–87. doi: 10.1007/s10339-015-0740-7

Table 1.

Participant characteristics

Non-musicians (n = 17) Vocalists (n = 21) Drummers (n = 16) Statistic
Age (years) Mean 23.2 (SD = 3.8) 23.4 (3.6) 25.4 (5.7) F(2,51) = 1.217, p = 0.304
Non-verbal IQ (percentile score) 71.6 (19.1) 74.1 (22.9) 77.3 (14.9) F(2,51) = 0.352, p = 0.705
Years of musical experience 2.35 (1.5)* 14.7 (4.4) 16.7 (7.1) F(1,35) = 1.138 p = 0.293*
*

Ten non-musician participants had some musical training; these participants were not included in the group comparison for years experience