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*** Effect of Musical Expertise on the Perception of Duration and Pitch in Language: A Cross-linguistic Study  ***
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Authors: Siqi Lyu, Nele Põldver, Liis Kask, Luming Wang, Kairi Kreegipuu

Corresponding author: Kairi Kreegipuu
Contact Information: kairi.kreegipuu@ut.ee
Näituse 2, Tartu 50409, Tartu, Estonia



****** General Introduction ******
This project includes the raw EEG data.
The R/Matlab scripts used for statistical analyses and plotting, as well as the raw AX data, are available separately on OSF: https://osf.io/ardfs/.

This project only includes the musicians' raw EEG data. The non-musicians were selected from our other study by matching the gender and sex with the musicians. The non-musicians raw EEG data are not uploaded here to avoid repetition but are available at https://datadoi.ee/handle/33/566.

The data was collected at the Cross-linguistic and Brain Sciences Lab at Zhejiang University of Technology, China, between May–June 2021, and at the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology at the University of Tartu, Estonia, between November 2021 to April 2022.




****** 0_raw_EEG_and_AX_data (non-musicians) ******
The following non-musician subjects were selected from our other study.

CHN (n=22):
G1_02
G1_08
G1_11
G1_16
G1_19
G1_20
G3_02
G3_04
G3_07
G3_11
G3_12
G3_13
G3_18
G3_20
G5_03
G5_06
G5_08
G5_10
G5_14
G5_16
G5_19
G5_20

EST (n=23):
G1_03
G1_07
G1_10
G1_11
G1_13
G1_15
G1_17
G1_21
G3_04
G3_06
G3_08
G3_14
G3_15
G3_19
G3_21
G5_03
G5_05
G5_06
G5_07
G5_08
G5_13
G5_20
G5_21




****** 0_raw_EEG_data (musicians) ******
*** Equipment ***
EST: Biosemi 64-channel system, recorded by software ActiView
CHN: Brain Products actiCHamp 64-channel system, recorded by software BrainVision Recorder

*** Data format ***
EST: each recording session generated one .bdf data file
CHN: each recording session generated one .eeg, one .vhdr, and one .vmrk data file

*** Naming convention ***
Group number _ Subject number Native language Age Gender _ series order _ series name
e.g., G7_01CN18F_1_JIDI1.eeg
NB! 
1. G7_18 in the CHN dataset was excluded because of program crash and discomfort in the subject;
2. G7_05 in the EST dataset was excluded because of left-handedness.
3. The series "JIDI2" was for our other project and was not analyzed in the current paper.

*** Event markers/triggers in the raw EEG data ***
Sada word: 128 (Q2-170), 64 (Q2-290), 32 (Q3-170), 16 (Q3-290)
Sada pure tone: 128 (Q2-170), 64 (Q2-290), 32 (Q3-170), 16 (Q3-290)
Jidi word: 128 (T1-150), 64 (T1-250), 32 (T2-150), 16 (T2-250)
Jidi pure tone: 128 (T1-150), 64 (T1-250), 32 (T2-150), 16 (T2-250)