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Unmasked and masked thresholds for a 1000-Hz tone and for broadband noise were estimated adaptively for infants and adults using an observer-based behavioral procedure. The difference between infants and adults in unmasked threshold were 14 and 7 dB for tones and noise, respectively. The difference between infants and adults in masked threshold were 10 and 5 dB for tones and noise, respectively. Psychometric functions for detection of broadband noise were also obtained from some infants and adults. Infants\u2019 psychometric functions were similar to those obtained in tone detection with shallower slopes and lower upper asymptotes than adults\u2019. This suggests that the relative improvement in infants\u2019 threshold for broadband noise is not due to greater attentiveness to the noise. 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