George Sperling's (1960) experiments on visual sensory memory demonstrated that:
A. briefly presented information cannot be recalled
B. iconic memory lasts for a very long time
C. people could not learn to associate a tone with a visual stimulus
D. people have a brief visual memory that decays rapidly
Answer: D. people have a brief visual memory that decays rapidly
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