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Definition
An visual icon is a short-lived sensory memory that is registered by our visual receptors but decays within less than a second. Iconic memory is brief sensory memory for visual stimuli. It corresponds to the sensory memory stage of Atkinson and Shiffrin's model.
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Significance
Icons are an integral part of Sperling's iconic memory concept.
