Table 1.

Correlation of speech recognition accuracy at each target-to-masker ratio and performance for each memory task.

Correlations	10 dB	8 dB	6 dB	4 dB	2 dB	0 dB	Reading Span	Digit Span	Free Recall
10 dB	-
8 dB	0.74	-
6 dB	0.70	0.84	-
4 dB	0.71	0.84	0.87	-
2 dB	0.44	0.53	0.70	0.47	-
0 dB	0.48	0.68	0.65	0.56	0.75	-
Reading Span	0.69	0.44	0.37	0.37	0.22	0.35	-
Digit Span	0.64	0.41	0.31	0.40	0.15	0.20	0.50	-
Free Recall	0.68	0.54	0.66	0.55	0.58	0.42	0.44	0.40	-

Pearson’s linear correlation coefficients (r) are reported for each pair of values across participants. Correlation coefficients that have p-values less than 0.05 are in bold.