… assess visual working memory capacity, we used displays where the items to be remembered
were not simply colored squares in random locations but also exhibited some higher order …

… system, it should be able to take advantage of statistical regularities in the input in order to …
have a fixed working memory capacity when measured in bits. We can estimate the amount of …

… such real-world spatial regularities affect working memory capacity for individual objects. …
visual working memory performance for objects positioned according to real-world regularities, …

… In order for visual working memory performance for all display types to be described in
terms of a fixed limit of any kind—slots, chunks, or information—the field requires more …

… regularities … order to overcome possible drawbacks due to these violated assumptions and
investigate the robustness of the results we will also report bootstrapped parameter estimates …

… VWM capacity based on two factors: (a) the statistical regularities … we are interested in
estimating peoples' VWM capacity, their … If VWM adapts to the stimulus statistics in order to improve …

… that were maintained in working memory. Accordingly, when sample-test similarity was low,
capacity estimates for even the most complex objects were equivalent to the estimate for the …

… such evidence to establish regularities or laws of planetary … would tend to inflate our estimates
of the capacity of the focus of … Do we obtain these numerical facts in order to explain them? …

… to estimate visual working memory capacity, generally assume people represent no higher-order
… However, when the displays do have higher-order regularities or ’gist’, our model uses …

… order to evaluate the potential utilization of ensemble representations affecting working memory
capacity estimates, … obey the regularities required of this model, such as a fixed capacity …