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Experiment Author: Susan Campell. Adapted from STEP and used with permission of Brian MacWhinney
Experiment Description
Participants were presented with a display of two lines of letters (with three or four letters per line). Then they were given a tone (either high or low) that indicated which line they were supposed to remember.
Experiment Instructions
In this experiment a set of letters split in two rows appears after a high tone or a low tone plays. If there is a high tone, type out the letters from the top row in the same order they appeared. Leave a space to skip a letter. If there is a low tone, repeat the process for the bottom row of letters. There are 16 trials in this experiment.
Experiment Citation
Sperling, G. (1960). The information available in brief visual presentations. Psychological Monographs, 74 (11, Whole No. 498).
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See Also:
STEP: Some Tests of the Decay Theory of Immediate Memory [35089]
STEP: Short-term Retention of Individual Verbal Items [35273]
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