Rapid visual discrimination in patients with unilateral cerebral lesions was investigated using a search task. Both the exposure duration of search arrays and the difference in the texton content between the target pattern and the background patterns were varied. Patients could detect the targets with a large texton difference more rapidly than the targets with a small difference.
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