For 10 points, name this type of memory that captures stimuli for several seconds.
The Sperling experiments suggest that it can hold up to twelve items. It is subject to a type of interference called "backward masking," in which a new stimulus erases a previous one in the same place. It includes haptic, echoic and iconic components, and the process of attention can move information from it into working or short term memory. For 10 points, name this type of memory that captures stimuli for several seconds.
The Sperling experiments suggest that it can hold up to twelve items.
{sensory} memory [accept {iconic memory} or {visual memory} or clear equivalents before “haptic”; do not prompt on “memory” at any point]