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. 2017 Aug 2;11:144. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00144

Table 1.

Independent-samples t-tests of VAS results.

Musician Emotion t df Two-tailed significance Mean VAS score
Musicians Non-musicians
Albeniz Pleasant 2.138 22 0.044 9.09 7.23
Mozart Happy 3.537 22 0.002 8.91 6.85
Chopin Pleasant 2.690 22 0.013 9.27 7.46
Chopin Sad 6.546 22 0.000 8.64 4.31

T-tests are conducted with respect to the Group variable (Non-Musicians vs. Musicians) over different emotional levels (Pleasant, Happy, Sad) and different Music (Albeniz, Chopin, Mozart). Note that T-value are computed with the t-statistics corrected for paired groups, df indicates the degree of freedom of the test, whereas p-values are computed considered alpha = 0.05