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Table 1 Participants’ characteristics

From: Autistic traits, resting-state connectivity, and absolute pitch in professional musicians: shared and distinct neural features

  AP (n = 31) RP (n = 33) t test
Mean SD Range Mean SD Range
Age (years) 25.13 9.2 17–58 24.0 7.02 17–57 t(56.1) = − 0.549; p = 0.585
SPM (IQ) 110.4 16.4 73–132.25 114.41 13.14 86.5–134.5 t(57.5) = 1.073; p = 0.288
ZVT (IQ) 120.76 13.14 101.5–145 120.61 13.69 97–143.5 t(61.9) = − 0.045; p = 0.964
Hours main instrument (h) 11,961.4 9212 1642.5–39,785 13,735.61 17,125.89 1606–77,617.25 t(49.7) = 0.520; p = 0.605
AMMA total 64.74 6.26 53–78 63.244 7.03 46–76 t(61.8) = − 0.90; p = 0.370
AMMA rhythmic 32.81 2.82 28–39 31.97 3.22 23–37 t(61.7) = 0.272; p = 0.2721
AMMA tonal 31.9 3.74 25–39 30.27 3.8 22–37 t(61.9) = −1.728; p = 0.089
MSI 208.65 17.59 161–234 210.79 15.12 185–246 t(59.3) = 0.521; p = 0.604
PIS 28.5 6.03 15–36 5.30 4.33 0–21* t(52.2) = − 17.37; p < 2.2e−16
Starting age (years) 5.97 2.97 2–17 7.12 2.22 3–12 t(55.4) = 1.751; p = 0.086
  1. Age, non-verbal IQ (SPM, IQ values), information processing capacity (ZVT, IQ values), musical training (total hours during life span on main instrument in hours), musicality (AMMA total, raw score on test; AMMA tonal, tonal raw score; AMMA rhythmic, rhythmic raw score; MSI, questionnaire, sum score; higher values indicate higher musicality), and online pitch identification screening (PIS, sum of correctly named tones) for each group. No group differences apart from performance on pitch-naming test (PIS) were found
  2. *Two RPs reported not having absolute pitch but reached a screening score of 13 and 21, respectively. Because of this and their weak performance in the pitch adjustment test, the subjects were assigned to the RP group. Significant group differences are indicated in italics
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