Figure 1.
Cumulative percentage of words correctly reported for single-word stimuli and for sentences with subject-relative and object-relative clause syntactic structures as a function of sound level increased in 2 dB increments. Data are shown for young adults with normal hearing (top panel), older adults with better hearing (middle panel), and older adults with mild to moderate hearing loss (bottom panel). The horizontal dotted line in each panel shows the point at which 50% of the words in each of the three conditions were reported correctly.