a trend towards significancep = 0.072
An analysis of variance revealed a significant effect of disorder severity (control, MCS or UWS) on the mean values of emergence capacity (F(2,37) = 26.08, p < 0.001), with subsequent post-hoc tests (corrected for multiple comparisons using the Benjamini-Hochberg procedure to control the false discovery rate ( Benjamini and Hochberg, 1995 )) indicating that healthy controls had significantly higher capacity for causal emergence than both MCS and UWS patients across brain regions - as well as a trend towards significance for the difference between patient groups ( p = 0.072) (see Fig. 1 and Table S1).