Picture memory improves with longer on time and off time.
Both recognition and recall of pictures improve as picture presentation time increases and as time between pictures increases. Processing of the pictures, rehearsal and/or encoding, continues after the picture has disappeared, just as for verbal material. Both the results and conclusions stand in contrast to those of Shaffer and Shiffrin.
D001244:Association; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D007257:Information Theory; D008568:Memory; D011939:Mental Recall; D013997:Time Factors