Cailean has always wished she had a "photographic memory." She sits on the steps of one of the academic buildings and watches th
e people. Sometimes she closes her eyes and tries to recall everything about what she was seeing. Each time, though, the memory quickly seems to dissolve. In what kind of memory is the visual information stored while it lasts?
The iconic memory has to do the visual memory system and provides a depiction of the whole visual perception for a short period of time, which lasts for about one second. Besides, it is connected to and supports the visual short-term memory system, which deals with eye-perceived information. As a result, Cailean's visual short-term memory system is involved, since she can recall all the information perceived by her eyes for a brief period of time.
