Extended Data Fig. 1: Consistency and transitivity of answers strongly exceeded chance and approached ceiling levels.

Pairwise comparisons of contents were both consistent and transitive (a) across different contexts (b) despite unique and distinct orders among pictures, indicating memory of content-in-context. Consistency measures how well context-specific preferences for one picture over another are maintained across presentation orders, while transitivity checks if a preference for A over B and B over C also results in a preference for A over C. a. Swarmplots depict consistency scores γ (dark blue, left) and transitivity scores τ (light blue, right) for each participant’s answers in each recording session. Dotted lines represent chance performance. Only one recording session did not exceed chance levels and was excluded from further analyses. b. Boxplots (Q1, median, Q3; whiskers: points within ±1.5 IQR) of mean session-wise behavioral performances (averages of consistency and transitivity) across contexts. Performance did not differ significantly between contexts (p = 0.083; Kruskal-Wallis-Test).