Table 3.

Pearson correlations of moral emotions, social functioning, and language with age and implantation timing

	Chronological age		Age at implantationa	Time with CIa
	NH	CI	CI	CI
Moral emotions
Shame/guilt	0.33***	0.40**	0.00	−0.01
Pride	0.25**	0.40**	−0.33*	0.35**
Social functioning
Social competence	0.34***	0.09	−0.18	0.17
Cooperation	0.51***	0.55***	−0.18	0.17
Externalizing behavior	−0.09	0.34**	0.21	−0.21
Language
Emotion vocabulary	0.76***	0.73***	−0.26	0.25
Language understanding		0.17	−0.48**	0.47**
Word production		0.14	−0.50**	0.48**
Sentence production		0.04	−0.58***	0.57***

* p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001 (two tailed)

^aCorrected for chronological age