Listener age worsens masked speech recognition even with equal sensation levels

Evidence

When the noise masker is replaced by 16 pure tones (PT; open circles), performance is markedly better—all three groups show a large improvement in performance, although there appears to be a systematic decrease in performance from young NH to age-matched NH to the HI group. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 2188