Table 2

Additional statistical tests of the pairwise and within-sample effects

ROIComparisonWilcoxonBEST 95% CIHedges’s gCohen’s d
FrontalDancers: stim. cond.V = 135, p = 0.110.36 [−0.12, 0.83]0.52 [−0.07, 1.11]0.473 [0.005, 0.83]
Signers: stim. cond.V = 7, p = 0.009−0.61 [−0.99, −0.23]−1.21 [−2.14, −0.28]−1.03 [−2.35, −0.39]
Dance: subj. groupW = 185, p = 0.0030.75 [0.29, 1.2]1.06 [0.28, 1.84]1.19 [0.65, 1.99]
Sign: subj. groupW = 89, p = 0.3−0.26 [−0.75, 0.24]−0.39 [−1.13 0.35]−0.40 [−1.39, 0.31]
Dancers watching danceV = 178, p = 0.00030.79 [0.37, 1.2]0.89 [−0.08, 1.85]0.93 [0.56, 1.45]
Dancers watching signV = 152, p = 0.020.38 [0.074, 0.70]0.59 [−0.35, 1.53]0.62 [0.21, 1.14]
Signers watching danceV = 44, p = 0.70.046 [−0.15, 0.24]0.12 [−1.05, 1.29]0.13 [−0.48, 0.94]
Signers watching signV = 74, p = 0.0030.65 [0.24, 1.0]1.03 [−0.22, 2.28]1.12 [0.54, 2.64]
OccipitalDancers: stim. cond.V = 84, p = 0.7−0.094 [−0.49, 0.29]−0.25 [−0.94, 0.43]−0.17 [−0.59, 0.4]
Signers: stim. cond.V = 24, p = 0.3−0.24 [−0.63, 0.15]−0.48 [−1.18, 0.23]−0.43 [−1.1, 0.15]
Dance: subj. groupW = 154, p = 0.10.31 [−0.03, 0.64]0.70 [−0.05, 1.46]0.75 [0.14, 1.47]
Sign: subj. groupW = 145, p = 0.20.23 [−0.22, 0.69]0.36 [−0.38, 1.10]0.37 [−0.4, 1.3]
Dancers watching danceV = 174, p = 0.00060.47 [0.23, 0.73]0.91 [−0.05, 1.88]0.95 [0.58, 1.49]
Dancers watching signV = 184, p = 0.000050.59 [0.30, 0.89]0.99 [0.02, 1.97]1.04 [0.75, 1.53]
Signers watching danceV = 56, p = 0.20.16 [−0.066, 0.39]0.43 [−0.76, 1.62]0.47 [−0.1, 1.39]
Signers watching signV = 71, p = 0.0090.34 [−0.001, 0.72]0.65 [−0.55, 1.86]0.71 [0.44, 1.22]
  • Columns show the ROI; the comparison being tested (e.g., dancers: stim. cond. is the effect of stimulus condition within dancers); non-parametric Wilcoxon tests; Bayesian estimates with 95% credible interval; Hedges’s g with 95% CI; Cohen’s d with 95% CI.