What Is Iconic Memory?

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Iconic memory is the term for when the human brain remembers an image after briefly being shown the visual. Sensory memory refers to any memory of any of the senses. Iconic memory refers only to the memory of sight. The word icon means a picture or image, hence the term for this short-term type of memory. From iconic memory experiments, scientists learned that a witnessed image is stored briefly without the brain spending much time processing.

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