Table 1.

Main TBRS^∗ parameters.

Symbol	Default value	Meaning
R	6	Mean processing rate of encoding, refreshing, and recall
s	1	Standard deviation of processing rate
θ	0.05	Retrieval threshold
σ	0.02	Standard deviation of Gaussian noise added to item activations at retrieval
D	0.5	Decay rate
Tr	0.08	Mean time taken to refresh an item
Ta	Depends on the task	Mean duration of attentional capture by distractor processing steps