Psychology: Research and Review
Table 1 Mean number of correct responses (M), with standard deviation (SD), median, and range (minimum-maximum) in tonal sequence recognition and pseudoword sequence recall tasks, for each group of participants
From: Irrelevant sound interference on phonological and tonal working memory in musicians and nonmusicians
Musicians (n = 21) | Nonmusicians (n = 22) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Task | M (SD) | Median | Min–max | M (SD) | Median | Min–max |
Tonal | 19.9 (2.79) | 20 | 14–24 | 16.5 (2.67) | 16 | 9–21 |
Phonological | 3.8 (0.71) | 3.8 | 2.5–4.8 | 3.7 (0.78) | 3.8 | 1.8–5.5 |