Table 1 Descriptive statistics and correlations for VWM capacity and the RCB index for each condition.

From: Individual differences in working memory capacity are unrelated to the magnitudes of retrocue benefits

Measure

1

2

3

4

5

1. VWM capacity

–

    

2. RCB index for object-color reports

0.114

–

   

3. RCB index for object-orientation reports

 − 0.007

0.177

–

  

4. RCB index for dimension-color reports

0.038

0.339**

0.235

–

 

5. RCB index for dimension-orientation reports

0.130

0.054

0.006

0.049

–

Mean

2.52

48.62%

33.048%

14.29%

4.62%

SD

0.94

0.19

0.14

0.23

0.18

Skew

0.576

 − 0.907

 − 0.203

 − 0.625

 − 0.344

Kurtosis

0.322

0.435

 − 0.519

0.625

 − 0.022

  1. “Object-color reports” refers to the color report trials in the object-based cue task. “Object-orientation reports” refers to the orientation report trials in the object-based cue task. “Dimension-color reports” refers to the color report trials in the dimension-based cue task. “Dimension-orientation reports” refers to the orientation report trials in the dimension-based cue task.
  2. N = 68, **p < 0.01.
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