. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 1.

Published in final edited form as: Psychol Aging. 2014 Sep 22;29(4):907–912. doi: 10.1037/a0037829

Table 1.

Pearson Correlations Between Predictor Variables and the Difference between Fixed versus Ascending Accuracy

Predictor Variables	Fixed v. Ascending Difference	1	2	3	4
1. Chronological age	.25^*
2. Hearing acuity (PTA)	.10	.66^***
3. Vocabulary knowledge (Shipley)	.10	.36^**	.19
4. Reading suppression (Stroop task)	.24^*	.68^***	.58^***	.07
5. WMC (complex span task)	−.42^***	−.37^***	−.18	−.03	−.37^***

Note. PTA = pure-tone average; WMC = working memory capacity;

p < .05.

^**

p < .01.

^***

< .001