Sperling flashed a matrix of 12 letters for 1/20th of a second to participants.When asked to recall the letters immediately after,Sperling found that MOST participants recalled:
A)none of the letters given the short presentation time.
B)fewer than three letters.
C)fewer than half of the letters.
D)more than half of the letters.

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Sperling's experiment demonstrated that participants could recall fewer than half of the letters immediately after they were flashed, indicating that while people briefly hold a large amount of visual information in sensory memory, they can only report a fraction of it before it fades.

Sperling Flashed a Matrix of 12 Letters for 1/20th of a Second