George Sperling • Publications • Reprintings of Publications • Unpublished Bell Laboratories Technical Memoranda • Talks at Conferences and Meetings of Professional Societies • Invited Lectures at Universities and Institutes George Sperling - 1 . Publications - 1 . Publications 1960 Sperling, G. (1960). The information available in brief visual presentations. Psychological Mono- graphs: General and Applied, 74,(11, Whole No. 498). 1960 Sperling, G. (1960). Negative afterimage without prior positive image. Science, 131, 1613-1614. 1961 Averbach, E., & Sperling, G. (1961). Short term storage of information in vision. In C. Cherry (Ed.), Information theory (pp. 196-211). Washington, DC: Butterworth & Co. 1963 Sperling, G. (1963). A model for visual memory tasks. Human Factors, 5, 19-31. 1963 Novak, S., & Sperling, G. (1963). Visual thresholds near a continuously visible or briefly pre- sented light-dark boundary. Optica Acta, 10, 187-191. 1964 Sperling, G. (1964). Linear theory and the psychophysics of flicker. Documenta Ophthalmolog- ica, 18, 3-15. 1965 Sperling, G. (1965). Temporal and spatial visual masking. I. Masking by impulse flashes. Jour- nal of the Optical Society of America, 55, 541-559. 1967 Sperling, G. (1967). Successive approximations to a model for short-term memory. Acta Psycho- logica, 27, 285-292. 1967 Novak, S., & Sperling, G. (1967). Increment thresholds [Letter]. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 57, 542. 1968 Sperling, G. (1968). Phonemic model of short-term auditory memory. In Proceedings, 76th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, 3, 63-64. 1968 Sperling, G., & Sondhi, M. M. (1968). Model for visual luminance discrimination and flicker detection. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 58, 1133-1145. 1970 Sperling, G., & Speelman, R. G. (1970). Acoustic similarity and auditory short-term memory: Experiments and a model. In D. A. Norman (Ed.), Models of human memory (pp. 149-202). New York: Academic Press. 1970 Sperling, G. (1970). Model of visual adaptation and contrast detection. Perception and Psy- chophysics, 8, 143-157. 1970 Sperling, G. (1970). Short-term memory, long-term memory, and scanning in the processing of visual information. In F. A. Young & D. B. Lindsley (Eds.), Early experience and visual informa- tion processing in perceptual and reading disorders (pp. 198-218). Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences. 1970 Sperling, G. (1970). Binocular vision: A physical and a neural theory. American Journal of Psy- chology, 83, 461-534. 1971 Sperling, G. (1971). Information retrieval from two rapidly consecutive stimuli: A new analysis. Perception and Psychophysics, 9, 89-91. 1971 Sperling, G. (1971). Computer parasites and hosts: Practical advice on how to be a successful par- asite at your host’s computer installation. Behavior Research Methods and Instrumentation, 3, 147-148. 1971 Sperling, G. (1971). The description and luminous calibration of CRO visual displays. Behavior Research Methods and Instrumentation, 3, 148-151. George Sperling - 2 . Publications - 2 . 1971 Sperling, G. (1971). Flicker in computer-generated visual displays: Selecting a CRO phosphor and other problems. Behavior Research Methods and Instrumentation, 3, 151-153. 1971 Sperling, G. (1971). Stereoscopic visual displays: Principles, viewing devices, alignment proce- dures. Behavior Research Methods and Instrumentation, 3, 154-158. 1971 Sperling, G., Budiansky, J., Spivak, J. G., & Johnson, M. C. (1971). Extremely rapid visual search: The maximum rate of scanning letters for the presence of a numeral. Science, 174, 307-311. 1976 Sperling, G., & Melchner, M. J. (1976). Estimating item and order information. Journal of Math- ematical Psychology, 13, 192-213. 1976 Sperling, G. (1976). Movement perception in computer-driven visual displays. Behavior Research Methods and Instrumentation, 8, 144-151. 1976 Sperling G., & Melchner, M. J. (1976). Visual search and visual attention. In V. D. Glezer (Ed.), Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium of Sensory System Physiology: Information Processing in Visual System (pp. 224-230). Leningrad: Academy of Sciences, Pavlov Institute of Physiology. 1978 Sperling, G. (1978). Future prospects in language and communication for the congenitally deaf. In L. Liben (Ed.), Deaf children: Developmental perspectives (pp. 103-114). New York: Aca- demic Press. 1978 Sperling, G., & Melchner, M. J. (1978). Visual search, visual attention, and the attention operating characteristic. In J. Requin (Ed.), Attention and performance VII (pp. 675-686). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. 1978 Sperling, G., & Melchner, M. J. (1978). The attention operating characteristic: Examples from visual search. Science, 202, 315-318. 1979 Sperling, G. (1979). This week’s citation classic: Sperling, G. The information available in brief visual presentations. Psychological Monogr. 74: 1-29, 1960. Current Contents, 11 (21), 18. 1979 Sperling, G. (1979). Critical duration, supersummation, and the narrow domain of strength-dura- tion experiments. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2, 279-281. 1980 Kowler, E., & Sperling, G. (1980). Transient stimulation does not aid visual search: Implication for the role of saccades. Perception and Psychophysics, 27, 1-10. 1980 Didner, R., & Sperling, G. (1980). Perceptual delay: A consequence of metacontrast and apparent motion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 6, 235-243. 1980 Sperling, G., & Reeves, A. (1980). Measuring the reaction time of a shift of visual attention. In R. Nickerson (Ed.), Attention and performance VIII (pp. 347-360). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. 1980 Sperling, G. (1980). Bandwidth requirements for video transmission of American Sign Language and finger spelling. Science, 210, 797-799. 1981 Burt, P., & Sperling, G. (1981). Time, distance, and feature trade-offs in visual apparent motion. Psychological Review, 88, 171-195. 1981 Sperling, G. (1981). Mathematical models of binocular vision. In S. Grossberg, (Ed.), Proceed- ings of the Symposium in Applied Mathematics of the American Mathematical Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics: Vol. 13. Mathematical Psychology and Psy- chophysiology (pp. 281-300). Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society. George Sperling - 3 . Publications - 3 . 1981 Sperling, G. (1981). Video transmission of American Sign Language and finger spelling: Present and projected bandwidth requirements. In A. Habibi & A. N. Netravali (Eds.), IEEE Transactions on Communications [Special Issue on Picture Communication Systems], Com-29, 1993-2002. 1983 Sperling, G., Pav el, M., Cohen, Y., Landy, M. S., & Schwartz, B. J. (1983). Image processing in perception and cognition. In O. J. Braddick & A. C. Sleigh (Eds.), Proceedings of Rank Prize Funds International Symposium at The Royal Society of London, 1982. Springer Series in Infor- mation Sciences: Vol. 11. Physical and Biological Processing of Images (pp. 359-378). Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1983 Sperling G. (1983). Why we need iconic memory. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 6, 37-39. 1983 Kowler, E., & Sperling, G. (1983). Abrupt onsets do not aid visual search. Perception and Psy- chophysics, 34, 307-313. 1983 Schwartz, B. J., & Sperling, G. (1983). Luminance controls the perceived 3D structure of dynamic 2D displays. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 21, 456-458. 1984 Sperling, G. (1984). A unified theory of attention and signal detection. In R. Parasuraman & D. R. Davies (Eds.), Varieties of attention (pp. 103-181). New York: Academic Press. 1984 van Santen, J. P. H., & Sperling, G. (1984). Temporal covariance model of human motion percep- tion. Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, 1, 451-473. 1984 Landy, M. S., Cohen, Y., & Sperling, G. (1984). HIPS:† Image processing under Unix. Software and applications. Behavior Research Methods and Instrumentation, 16, 199-216. †HIPS is the Human Information Processing Laboratory’s Image Processing System. 1984 Landy, M. S., Cohen, Y., & Sperling, G. (1984). HIPS†: A Unix-based image processing system. Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing, 25, 331-347. †HIPS is the Human Information Processing Laboratory’s Image Processing System. 1985 van Santen, J. P. H., & Sperling, G. (1985). Elaborated Reichardt detectors. Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, 2, 300-321. 1985 Sperling, G., van Santen, J. P. H., & Burt, P. J. (1985). Three theories of stroboscopic motion per- ception. Spatial Vision, 1, 47-56. 1985 Sperling, G., Landy, M., Cohen, Y., & Pav el, M. (1985). Intelligible encoding of ASL image sequences at extremely low information rates. Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing, 31, 335-391. 1985 Weichselgartner, E., & Sperling, G. (1985). Continuous measurement of visible persistence. Jour- nal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 11, 711-725. 1986 Sperling, G. (1986). A signal-to-noise theory of the effects of luminance on picture memory: Comment on Loftus. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 115, 189-192. 1986 Dosher, B. A., Sperling, G., & Wurst, S. A. (1986). Tradeoffs between stereopsis and proximity luminance covariance as determinants of perceived 3D structure. Vision Research, 26, 973-990. 1986 Reeves, A., & Sperling, G. (1986). Attention gating in short-term visual memory. Psychological Review, 93, 180-206. 1986 Sperling, G., & Dosher, B. A. (1986). Strategy and optimization in human information processing. In K. Boff, L. Kaufman, & J. Thomas (Eds.), Handbook