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Growth-of-masking functions for ON-frequency conditions were obtained for probe tones placed within the 200-Hz-wide masker and for probe tones placed within 400-Hz-wide maskers with upper edges at 1040, 1300, 1627, and 2040 Hz (probe tones placed 20 Hz below the upper edge frequency). Growth-of-masking functions were fit with a power function of masker intensity added to an internal noise with intensity equal to the absolute threshold for the probe, and were well described by two free parameters and a threshold constant: the growth-of-masking slope (\u03b2), a masking sensitivity constant (\u03ba) that indicated the minimum effective masker level at which masking began, and the intensity of the probe at absolute threshold (IT). For OFF-frequency masking conditions, growth-of-masking slopes (\u03b2) decreased by a factor of 0.8 for every 10 dB of hearing loss. 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For ON-frequency masking conditions, growth-of-masking slopes were not different from normal in hearing-impaired subjects. ON-frequency masking began when the effective power within an auditory filter at the probe frequency reached elevated absolute threshold at the probe frequency. 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