Interaction of Musicianship and Aging: A Comparison of Cortical Auditory Evoked Potentials

Table 2

Mean pure-tone hearing thresholds (dB HL) and 50% signal-to-noise ratios (dB) for the Words-in-Noise (WIN; [38, 39]) test plus standard deviations for each older participant group.

	WIN	Ear	Frequency (Hz)
			250	500	1000	2000	3000	4000	6000	8000
Older nonmusicians ()	5.3; (2.4)	Right	15; (5)	14; (5)	15; (6)	16; (7)	16; (3)	26; (17)	26; (9)	30; (22)
		Left	13; (3)	16; (5)	13; (7)	16; (6)	22; (6)	26; (15)	29; (12)	26; (13)
Older; musicians; ()	5.6; (2.7)	Right	18; (6)	14; (5)	14; (8)	14; (13)	16; (12)	16; (8)	28; (11)	31; (23)
		Left	13; (3)	16; (6)	15; (8)	14; (11)	13; (9)	19; (9)	26; (11)	31; (17)