Fig 6. Correlation analyses.

Activity in the occipital cluster during (A) and before (B) the MMN correlated negatively with phoneme discrimination ability in the difficult condition. The stronger CI users activated their left occipital cortex, the poorer their performance was in the phoneme discrimination test. In contrast to that, there was a trend for higher activity in the right supramarginal cluster being associated with more satisfaction regarding the CI user’s subjectively perceived language intelligibility.