Table 4.

Orthogonal contrasts of reverberation conditions (post hoc Tukey HSD) indicate significant differences in speech recognition performance as a function of age group and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Performance in the pseudo-anechoic (PA) condition, reverberant condition at a 2 m distance (R2m) and reverberant condition at a 6 m distance (R6m) were compared within each age group at −10, −5, and 0 dB SNR.

Reverberation Conditions		Age Groups (years)
		7–8			9–10			11–12			13–14			23–30
		SNR (dB)			SNR (dB)			SNR (dB)			SNR (dB)			SNR (dB)
		−10	−5	0	−10	−5	0	−10	−5	0	−10	−5	0	−10	−5	0
PA	R2m	‡	‡		‡	‡		‡	‡		‡	‡		‡
PA	R6m	†	†	*	‡	‡		‡	‡		‡	‡		‡
R2m	R6m

^*Significant at p < 0.05

^†Significant at p < 0.01

^‡Significant at p < 0.001