The Star Cancellation Test is a visuospatial scanning task and part of the Behavioural Inattention Test42, a screening battery designed to assess the extent of hemispatial neglect. This task consists of a pseudorandom search array of small and large stars, letters, and short words presented across a landscape A4 sheet of paper. Participants are instructed to search through this matrix and identify all small stars while ignoring all distractor stimuli. Participants are allowed 5 min to complete this task. Each participant is given a total score out of 56, representing the number of targets successfully identified.
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