Through several experiments, he showed support for his hypothesis that human beings store a perfect image of the visual world for a brief moment, before it is discarded from memory.
He suggested with a sevenfold reduction in the bandwidth for video transmission, it can be useful for the improvement in American Sign Language communication.
degree at the University of Michigan with hopes to become a scientist in one of the major scientific field such as biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics.
Sperling was originally attracted to psychology because he wanted to apply quantitative methods and theories used by physicists to describe the brain's mental microprocesses.
[3] Throughout Sperling's career, he has contributed very much to the fields of visual information processing and theory and empirical research.
This however, was already generally accepted in the psychological community, because it was understandable that people simply could not retain all the letters in their mind in such a brief period of time.
The participants were unable to recall as many letters, thus showing that visual stimuli that are not added to short-term memory are discarded less than 5 milliseconds of initial introduction.
He then went on to publish mathematical models for adaptation and flicker, contrast detection, binocular vision, and motion perception.