Standardised correlation coefficients and proportion of variance accounted for by regression analyses with sound stimuli as criterion variables and cognitive measures and sex as predictor variables.

<p>Note: CFIT - Culture Fair Intelligence Test, ReadSpan – Reading Span test, SimonCost – incongruent minus congruent RT in the Simon test, Ltotal – number of foreign languages ever learned, L2Rating – mean self-rating for reading, writing, speaking and comprehending in the first L2, L3Rating - mean self-rating for reading, writing, speaking and comprehending in the second L2 (if there was no L3 this variable was set to 0), MusRat – self rating of musical abilities, HandCons – consistency of handedness as assessed by the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory, Sex – dummy-coded with 0 for men and 1 for women ***p<.001, **p<.01, *p<.05,†p<.1.