By flashing letters on a screen for a brief moment and then asking participants to recall letters in a particular row,Sperling found the capacity of iconic memory to be __________.
A)four or five items
B)nine or ten items
C)all the letters present in a given row
D)one to two items

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Sperling's experiment demonstrated that participants could recall all the letters in a specific row when cued immediately after the display, indicating that iconic memory can hold a complete visual image briefly.

By Flashing Letters on a Screen for a Brief Moment