. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 24.

Published in final edited form as: J Mem Lang. 2018 Dec 1;105:19–42. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2018.10.003

Table 5. Summary of significance of effect sizes (transfer) as a function of feature match.

Feature category	Transfer feature	Feature match		Feature as a moderator
Feature category	Transfer feature	Matched	Unmatched	Feature as a moderator
Stimulus type
	Digits	^***	^**	^**
	Letters	^*	^*	(–)
	Words/nonwords	^*	–	–
	Objects	^*	^*	(–)
	Spatial location	^***	–	–
Stimulus domain
	Verbal	^***	–	^**
	Visuo-spatial	^***	–	–
Stimulus modality
	Auditory	^***	–	–
	Visual	^***
Response modality
	Spoken	^*	^***	–
	Manual	^***
Serial recall
	Verbal	^***	–	^*
	Visuo-spatial	^***	–	^***
	All	^***	^*	^***
Complex span
	Verbal	^**	–	^**
	Visuo-spatial	^***	–	(^***)
	Cross-domain	–
	All	^***	–	^*
Backward span
	Verbal	^***	–	^*
	Cross-domain	^***
	All	^***	–	^*

Cases < 10 for symbols shown in parentheses (see text for details).

−p > .05.

p < .05.

^**

p < .01.

^***

p < .001.