Table 3 Correlations between musical ability (expertise and aptitude) and prosodic discrimination ability and emotion recognition.

From: Prosodic discrimination skills mediate the association between musical aptitude and vocal emotion recognition ability

Variable

Prosodic discrimination

Vocal emotion recognition

Visual emotion recognition

Audiovisual emotion recognition

Musical expertise

0.28*

0.13

0.20*

0.16†

PROMS total score

0.62**

0.22**

0.08

0.17†

Melody

0.47**

0.23**

0.13

0.07

Rhythm

0.28**

0.14†

0.03

− 0.01

Embedded rhythm

0.46**

0.16†

0.08

0.21*

Tuning

0.41**

0.08

− 0.01

0.14

Accent

0.31**

0.06

0.02

0.12

Timbre

0.42**

0.20*

0.03

0.12

Tempo

0.54**

0.17†

0.12

0.14

Pitch

0.44**

0.15†

0.03

0.10

  1. †p < 0.10, *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01.
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