An automated device for the assessment and training of visual discrimination is described. The device utilizes a juke-box upon which film apparatus is mounted, as a random access slide projector. Filmed stimulus material is placed around the circumference of plastic discs housed in the juke-box and is projected onto a screen in programmed sequences. The device is inexpensive, has a good memory, is electrically controllable, and has a maximum search time of 11 sec. for 2400 chips of film. It has been used successfully in the assessment and training of more than 200 brain-damaged patients.
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