A pencil rescues impaired performance on a visual discrimination task in patients with medial temporal lobe lesions

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Sample displays. The task was to identify the unique object (asterisk). (Top row) Representative displays from difficulty levels 1 and 4. (Bottom row) Representative displays from difficulty levels 5 and 8. At all difficulty levels, every appendage appeared on more than one object, and the unique object could not be identified by the presence of a single feature. Instead, the conjunction of multiple appendages defined the unique object.

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