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Listeners with sensorineural hearing loss may also have reduced frequency selectivity due to cochlear damage and the resulting reduction in the nonlinear cochlear mechanisms. The present study investigates whether such a limitation in spectral information transmission would be observed with hearing-impaired listeners, similar to implant users. To test the hypothesis, hearing-impaired subjects were selected from a population of patients with moderate hearing loss of cochlear origin, where the frequency selectivity would be expected to be poorer compared to normal hearing. Hearing-impaired subjects were tested for vowel and consonant recognition in steady-state background noise of varying levels using a noiseband vocoder and as a function of the number of spectral channels. For comparison, normal-hearing subjects were tested with the same stimuli at different presentation levels. In quiet and low background noise, performance by normal-hearing and hearing-impaired subjects was similar. 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