Amelia is watching her baby sister shake a rattle.As long as the rattle is being shaken, all Amelia sees is a blur of color.She can only make out the shape of the rattle when the rattle stops moving.The "blurred" image that Amelia sees as long as the rattle is moving results from the way in which:

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Iconic memory is the sensory memory system for visual stimuli. It holds visual information in its original form for a very brief period of time (less than a second) before it is either transferred to long-term memory or forgotten. In this case, the blurred image that Amelia sees while the rattle is being shaken is an example of iconic memory. The visual information from the rattle is collected by her eyes and held in iconic memory, which lasts only for a fraction of a second.

Amelia Is Watching Her Baby Sister Shake a Rattle