“…Despite the demanding nature of associative binding, similar to memory for individual units of information, people can selectively attend to and prioritize associations in memory based on their value. This finding, referred to as valuedirected remembering (VDR; Castel, Benjamin, Craik, & Watkins, 2002;Nguyen, Marini, Zacharczuk, Llano, & Mudar, 2019;Stefanidi, Ellis, & Brewer, 2018), has been found in both the verbal memory domain using unrelated word pairs as stimuli (Ariel, Price, & Hertzog, 2015) and the visuospatial memory domain using item-location associations (Siegel & Castel, 2018a, 2018b. The ability to selectively prioritize information in memory is maintained under various Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-020-01034-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.…”