Editing Iconic memory (section)

{{Short description|Component of the visual memory system}}
'''Iconic memory''' is the visual [[sensory memory]] register pertaining to the visual domain and a fast-decaying store of visual information. It is a component of the visual [[memory]] system which also includes [[visual short-term memory]]<ref>{{Citation|title=Hughes, Paul Michael, (born 16 June 1956), General Manager: BBC Symphony Orchestra, and BBC Symphony Chorus, since 1999; BBC Singers, since 2012|date=2014-12-01|work=Who's Who|publisher=Oxford University Press|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u281917}}</ref> (VSTM) and [[long-term memory]] (LTM). Iconic memory is described as a very brief (<1 second), pre-categorical, high capacity memory store.<ref name="Sperling">{{cite journal|last=Sperling|first=George|year=1960|title=The information available in brief visual presentations|journal=Psychological Monographs|volume=74|issue=11|pages=1–29|citeseerx=10.1.1.207.7272|doi=10.1037/h0093759}}<!--| access-date = 2011-03-08 --></ref><ref name = "Dick"/> It contributes to VSTM by providing a coherent representation of our entire visual [[perception]] for a very brief period of time. Iconic memory assists in accounting for phenomena such as [[change blindness]] and continuity of experience during [[saccades]]. Iconic memory is no longer thought of as a single entity but instead, is composed of at least two distinctive components.<ref name = "Coltheart"/>  Classic experiments including [[#Sperling's partial report procedure|Sperling's partial report paradigm]] as well as modern techniques continue to provide insight into the nature of this SM store.

"[[Persistence of vision]]" is the more general (and often outdated) notion of lingering visual impressions (potentially including [[afterimage]]s and [[palinopsia]]), commonly associated with the reason why the interruptions between images in film and other [[stroboscopic effect|stroboscopic]] media go unnoticed.