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part <strong>of</strong> the session (M= 603 ms). The difference <strong>in</strong> the reaction times between the parts<br />

was larger <strong>in</strong> the music session (M= 31 ms) than <strong>in</strong> the language session (M= 94 ms).<br />

The ANOVA for the reaction times revealed ma<strong>in</strong> effects <strong>of</strong> session (F(1,39) = 25.39, p <<br />

0.001) <strong>and</strong> attention (F(1,39) = 35.81, p < 0.001), as well as an <strong>in</strong>teraction <strong>of</strong> session ×<br />

attention (F(1,39) = 6.40, p = 0.016), but it did not reveal any <strong>in</strong>teractions with subgroup.<br />

This <strong>in</strong>dicates that the children <strong>of</strong> both groups did not differ <strong>in</strong> their results <strong>in</strong> this task.<br />

ERP results<br />

Figure 12-1 presents the ERPs for the music experiment (upper panel) <strong>and</strong> the language<br />

experiment (lower panel) <strong>in</strong> the two subgroups: children with musical tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g (left) <strong>and</strong><br />

children without musical tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g (right). In Figure 12-2, the scalp distributions <strong>of</strong> the<br />

four <strong>in</strong>vestigated ERP components are shown: In the upper panel the topographies <strong>of</strong><br />

the ERP components from the music experiment (ERAN <strong>and</strong> N5), <strong>and</strong> <strong>in</strong> the lower<br />

panel these from the language experiment (ELAN <strong>and</strong> LSN) can be found. With<strong>in</strong> each<br />

panel, the left part conta<strong>in</strong>s the topographies from the MT children the right part these<br />

<strong>of</strong> the NM children.<br />

Figure 12-1 ERPs from the music (upper panel) <strong>and</strong> the language experiment (bottom panel): The group<br />

means are given <strong>in</strong> separate panels – from the group <strong>of</strong> musically tra<strong>in</strong>ed children (MT) at<br />

the left side <strong>and</strong> from the group <strong>of</strong> children without musical tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g (NM) at the right side.<br />

In the upper rows <strong>of</strong> each panel the electrodes from the left-anterior ROI are shown, the bottom<br />

rows conta<strong>in</strong> the electrodes <strong>of</strong> the right-anterior ROI. Black dotted l<strong>in</strong>es represent the<br />

ERP response to the irregular chords (<strong>in</strong> the music experiment) or to the syntactically <strong>in</strong>correct<br />

sentences (<strong>in</strong> the language experiment), black solid l<strong>in</strong>es these to the regular chords or<br />

to the syntactically correct sentences. The red solid l<strong>in</strong>es <strong>in</strong>dicate the difference <strong>of</strong> these conditions.<br />

Electrodes that are conta<strong>in</strong>ed <strong>in</strong> the ROIs used for statistical evaluation are written <strong>in</strong><br />

black <strong>in</strong> the figure <strong>of</strong> their head position.

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