George Sperling
George Sperling (* 1934 ) is an American psychologist . He is Professor of Cognitive Science and Neurobiology & Behavior at the University of California, Irvine .
In 1955 he made his Bachelor of Science at the University of Michigan . In 1956 he received an MA in psychology from Columbia University . He received his PH.D. from Harvard University. and has been working on cognitive psychology ever since.
In 1985 Sperling was elected to the National Academy of Sciences , 1992 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
research
He was best known for his studies of iconic memory (1960). Together with the echo memory , it forms the sensory memory .
The subjects were presented with a 3x3 letter matrix for a very short time. Overall, about half could always be remembered. However, if the test subjects were asked by a signal to concentrate on a certain line, the task could be solved perfectly.
Web links
- Portrait - featured on the University of California, Irvine faculty page
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| SURNAME | Sperling, George |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American psychologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1934 |