13 Facts About George Sperling

George Sperling was born on 1934 and is an American cognitive psychologist, researcher, and educator.

George Sperling was in the forefront in wanting to help the deaf population in terms of speech recognition.

George Sperling argued that the telephone was created originally for the hearing impaired but it became popularized by the hearing community.

George Sperling suggested with a sevenfold reduction in the bandwidth for video transmission, it can be useful for the improvement in American Sign Language communication.

George Sperling used a method of partial report to measure the time course of visual persistence.

In summer 1958, George Sperling went to work at Bell Laboratories where numerous experiments were conducted.

George 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.

In 1960, George Sperling performed an experiment using a matrix with three rows of three letters.

George Sperling believed that all nine letters were stored in the viewer's memory for a short period of time, but the memory failed leading to only 4 or 5 being recalled.

George Sperling built upon this experiment to then determine the amount of time before information was discarded from a person's memory.

George Sperling has lectured at Stanford University, University of Washington, University of Western Australia, University of London, University of California: Los Angeles, Columbia University, Duke University and New York University.

George Sperling was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992.

George Sperling then went on to publish mathematical models for adaptation and flicker, contrast detection, binocular vision, and motion perception.