You are at a professional football game. You look across from your seat and notice the other side of the stadium and all of the people in their seats. You close your eyes, and for a brief second, you see an accurate afterimage of that view in your mind. This is an example of ______.

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Seeing the view across the stadium and briefly retaining it in your mind is an example of sensory memory. Sensory memory holds information from our senses for a very short period of time, usually less than a second. This allows us to perceive a continuous and stable world even though our senses receive information in discrete moments.

You Are at a Professional Football Game