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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Rev. 2017 Mar;124(2):197–214. doi: 10.1037/rev0000060

Table 3.

Overview of abbreviations used to label the VWM model factor levels.

Factor Level
abbreviations
Meaning
Number of
encoded
items
A- All items are remembered
F- A fixed number of items is remembered
P- A variable number of items is remembered (Poisson
distribution)
Quantization
of precision
-C- Memory precision is continuous
-Qe- Memory precision is quantized and evenly distributed
across items
-Qu- Memory precision is quantized and unevenly distributed
across items
Variability
of precision
-EP There is no random variability in memory precision
-VP There is random variability in memory precision