sentence: To address this aim we assessed the performance of 102 listeners across the age range on a battery of psychophysical and speech-reception tests , with each test run at a low , and at a high stimulus level.CS is expected to degrade the precise timing information ( Bharadwaj , Verhulst , Shaheen , Liberman , Shinn-Cunningham , 2014 , Lopez-Poveda , Barrios , 2013 , Plack , Barker , Prendergast , 2014 ) that is often crucial for the encoding of basic sound attributes , such as the pitch of low-frequency tones , and the spatial location of tones with interaural time differences ( Moore , 2008 , Moore , 2019 ) .