perception

iconic memory

Very brief visual memory, lasting a few hundred milliseconds, that holds an image just after it is seen.

mémoire iconique

Mémoire visuelle très brève, de quelques centaines de millisecondes, qui garde une image juste après qu'on l'a vue.

Elle précède la mémoire de travail visuelle (working-memory).

Classification

perception

Attestation

French term: Common usage, not attested by a source
English definition: Show me the numbers: designing tables and graphs to enlighten

Sources (4)

24 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 3 books

Cite this entry

Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/iconic-memory.html

ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. iconic memory. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/iconic-memory.html

BibTeX

@incollection{taudiere2026-iconic-memory,
  author    = {Taudière, Adrien},
  title     = {iconic memory},
  booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
  year      = {2026},
  version   = {1.0.0},
  publisher = {IdEst},
  url       = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/iconic-memory.html},
  note      = {CC0 1.0}
}

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