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The simulations emulated epiretinal implant perception and employed psychophysically validated models of electrode activation, phosphene appearance, nonlinear spatial summation, and temporal dynamics, ensuring realistic representation of prosthetic vision. Performance accuracy and self-reported difficulty were analyzed to assess the effects of raster patterning. <jats:italic>Main results.<\/jats:italic> The checkerboard pattern consistently outperformed other raster patterns, yielding significantly higher accuracy and lower difficulty ratings across both tasks. The horizontal and vertical patterns introduced biases aligned with apparent motion artifacts, while the checkerboard minimized such effects. Random patterns resulted in the lowest performance, underscoring the importance of structured activation. Notably, checkerboard matched performance in the \u2018No Raster\u2019 condition, despite conforming to groupwise safety constraints. <jats:italic>Significance.<\/jats:italic> This is the first quantitative, task-based evaluation of raster patterns in SPV. 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