| | Category | BE | L04 | Musicians vs. Non-musicians on Neuropsychological Tests |
| | Abstract | The objective of this experiment was to test musicians and non-musicians |
| | on neuropsychological tests. The purpose of this study was to examine |
| | the differences between high school musicians and non-musicians on |
| | several cognitive measures. There were ten musicians and ten non- |
| | musicians, with an equivalent number of both genders. Both sets of |
| | people were submitted to four neuropsychological tests to measure motor |
| | skills, visual spatial skills and executive functioning. The musicians |
| | performed statistically better than the non-musicians on the Verbal Memory |
| | II, Trail Making Part B, Finger Tapping Tests (right and left hand), and the |
| | Wisconsin Card Sorting Test for the number of correct cards. The |
| | hypothesis was supported by the fact that the musician’s test results |
| | overall were higher than the non-musician's. |
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