Table 3.

Bivariate correlation coefficients for normal hearing (NH) and cochlear implant (CI) groups among age and measures of verbal working memory.

Group	Accuracy					Response time
	Span		Accuracy			Span		Time
	Forward	Backward	Nonrhymes	Rhymes	Adjectives	Forward	Backward	Nonrhymes	Rhymes	Adjectives
NH age	−.23	−.49**	−.30	−.50**	−.51**	.16	.29	.44*	.32	.23
CI age	−.33	−.21	−.51**	−.69**	−.52**	.45*	.17	.60**	.18	.46*

^* p < .05.

^** p < .01