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) |
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| Quantization of precision |
-C- | Memory precision is continuous | ||
| -Qe- | Memory precision is quantized and evenly distributed across items |
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| -Qu- | Memory precision is quantized and unevenly distributed across items |
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| Variability of precision |
-EP | There is no random variability in memory precision | ||
| -VP | There is random variability in memory precision | |||