While you are at the movies,the person sitting next to you coughs so loudly that you cannot hear part of an actor's line.However,you believe that you have heard the entire sentence,including the part masked by the cough.Your perception is possible because of:
A) long-term memory
B) sensory memory
C) iconic memory
D) maintenance rehearsal

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Sensory memory is the brief storage of sensory information, such as what we hear and see. It lasts only for a fraction of a second, but it allows us to perceive the world as continuous rather than as a series of disconnected stimuli. In this scenario, the cough would have briefly interrupted the auditory information, but the information that was already gathered by the sensory memory would have been sufficient to fill in the missing gap in the actor's line.

While You Are at the Movies,the Person Sitting Next to You