Using the PARTIAL REPORT PROCEDURE for studying visual sensory memory in which tone cues or pointers guided recall of a particular row of a 3x4 matrix of letters and single digit numbers, George...

Using the PARTIAL REPORT PROCEDURE for studying visual sensory memory in which tone cues or pointers guided recall of a particular row of a 3x4 matrix of letters and single digit numbers, George Sperling demonstrated that:

Extracted text: Using the PARTIAL REPORT PROCEDURE for studying visual sensory memory in which tone cues or pointers guided recall of a particular row of a 3x4 matrix of letters and single digit numbers, George Sperling demonstrated that: subjects could not retrieve some letters or numbers with whole report because they were never seen. whole report was a more accurate indication of the capacity of visual sensory memory/store. subjects could access very briefly all or nearly all of the letters or numbers. tones (or pointers) allowed subjects to report letters that had already decayed.