# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-sperling
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:38:10.640Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-sperling"
name: "George Sperling"
slug: "george-sperling"
description: "George Sperling is an American cognitive psychologist, researcher, and educator. Sperling documented the existence of iconic memory. 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 was in the forefront in wanting to help the deaf population in terms of speech recognition. He argued that the telephone was created originally for the hearing impaired but it became popularized by the hearing community. He suggested with a sevenfold reduction in the bandwidth for video transmission, it can be useful for the improvement in American Sign Language communication. Sperling used a method of partial report to measure the time course of visual persistence."
tagline: "American cognitive scientist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1934"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.93
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.475306666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "George Sperling"
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    title: "جورج سبيرلينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "জর্জ স্পারলিং"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sperling"
    title: "George Sperling"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sperling"
    title: "George Sperling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%BE%D8%B1%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "جرج اسپرلینگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1483591"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump