Sperling Flashed a Matrix of Letters for 1/20th of a Second

Multiple Choice

Sperling flashed a matrix of letters for 1/20th of a second to participants.Sperling found that the participants:

A) attempted to encode the letters from left to right.
B) attempted to encode the letters from top to bottom.
C) automatically stored the entire matrix of letters but for only a brief moment.
D) automatically stored the entire matrix of letters for up to a minute after the presentation.