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Table 1 Results of the fastest tapping of each of the four fingers

From: Transfer of piano practice in fast performance of skilled finger movements

 

Group mean and SD of the inter-keystroke interval (ms)

session

Day 1 pre

Day 1 post

Day 2 post

Day 3 post

Day 4 post

I

Tra

204.8

(21.1)

198.5

(26.0)

194.8

(14.3)

190.5

(16.8)

187.6

(22.9)

Ctl

240.6

(56.9)

222.7

(38.5)

208.6

(30.7)

216.8

(27.0)

212.4

(23.5)

M

Tra

232.8

(28.2)

223.8

(30.5)

232.1

(23.8)

219.9

(30.8)

213.3

(28.3)

Ctl

250.1

(45.3)

241.9

(29.0)

230.5

(35.3)

231.5

(33.8)

223.4

(26.2)

R

Tra

271.5

(51.8)

248.0

(37.4)

266.4

(31.8)

243.1

(32.2)

232.2

(24.8)

Ctl

334.0

(92.2)

301.8

(58.1)

292.2

(42.3)

276.7

(37.0)

258.9

(23.2)

L

Tra

251.8

(35.8)

232.3

(35.3)

239.5

(25.3)

220.4

(29.7)

219.9

(28.7)

 

Ctl

267.0

(36.7)

257.5

(27.2)

258.6

(24.6)

253.6

(22.7)

246.8

(27.8)

ANOVA results

 

group

session

finger

group x

group x

session x

group x finger x session

     finger

     session

     finger

dof

1,10

4,40

3,30

3,30

4,40

12, 120

12, 120

F

2.1

10.7

55.6

2.7

0.97

3.35

1.38

p

0.18

<0.001

<0.001

0.06

0.43

<0.001

0.18

η2

0.13

0.35

0.1

0.03

0.01

0.03

0.01

  1. I, M, R, L indicates the index, middle, ring and little finger, respectively.
  2. Tra: training group, Ctl: control group.
  3. A number in parenthesis indicates standard deviation within each of the training and control groups.
  4. η2 indicates eta-squared.