How many letters in Bidwell's ghost? An investigation of the upper limits of full report from a brief visual stimulus

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When a display of 14 letters and digits was illuminated by a bright l-msec flash (not followed by a mask), practiced, dark-adapted subjects were able to report 12.4 of the items. This was their average full report, not an estimate from a partial report. This high level of performance documents the clarity of the long-lasting, positive afterimages originally reported in the last century and termed "the ghost" by S. Bidwell. It is thus possible for a full report of a brief visual display to contain far more than the usual estimate of 3 to 4 letters first reported by Sperling (1960). Several trials were recorded in which subjects were able to report all 14 letters. © 1980 Psychonomic Society, Inc.

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Kriegman, D. H., & Biederman, I. (1980). How many letters in Bidwell’s ghost? An investigation of the upper limits of full report from a brief visual stimulus. Perception & Psychophysics, 28(1), 82–84. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03204320

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