George Sperling briefly presented people with arrays of 12 letters (3 rows of 4 letters each) and asked them to immediately recall what they had seen. Under these conditions, people typically recalled
A)8 to 10 letters
B)1 to 2 letters
C)3 to 5 letters
D)11 to 12 letters

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Sperling's experiment demonstrated that people could typically recall 3 to 5 letters from the briefly presented array, highlighting the limitations of sensory memory and the rapid decay of information from this memory store.

George Sperling Briefly Presented People with Arrays of 12 Letters