9 ) demonstrated that, overall, in the NH group, task-related FC tends to decrease as the distance between nodes increases, showing a highly significant negative correlation.
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For broad auditory areas, significant or marginally significant negative correlations were observed between average contralateral task-related CMFC during the first fNIRS recording (1 month postimplantation) and CNC phoneme scores in quiet for both visual-only and audio tasks ( Fig. 4 ).