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In Experiment 1, participants benefited from the presence of invariant spatial correlates of values to be remembered and showed superior performance (fewer errors and faster responses) relative to participants using a spatially impoverished display, regardless of information organization. Experiment 2 showed that the presence of unique verbal labels for items to be remembered aids keeping track performance. Experiments 3 and 4 provided further evidence that participants kept track of changing information best in conditions with spatial display invariants. These data are relevant to practitioners faced with designing soft monitoring displays - that is, displays involving multiple attributes of a single object in some cases (e.g., the temperature and pressure in a boiler) and one attribute of many objects in others (e.g., the current flow through several valves feeding the same system). 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