Texture discrimination task

The texture discrimination task is a common task used in visual perception learning. In this task, the subject must respond to the central letter task and then identify the orientation of a target array in a peripheral location of the test stimulus.
The test stimulus and mask stimulus are separated by a period of time known as the stimulus-to-mask onset asynchrony. The shorter the stimulus-to-mask onset asynchrony, the more difficult the task becomes.
A 2015 study has shown that action gamers typically do better than non-gamers in this task.