During this stage, an eraser effect clears the buffer to ready it for the next fixational pause. The Cat and then new information is presented and analyzed and decoded during the next fixational pause. ran from One theory of vision proposes that a transient visual system defect may prevent the usual erasure from happening. A simulation of this problem may look something like this. This may help describe why some people explain that print may appear scrambled when they attempt to read it. Processing We do not process letters the same way we process pictures.
Pictures seem to be stored in the brain in something like a pictorial form.
Letters and words are taken out of their visual form and transformed into an abstract code. This helps explain why we can read many different forms of fonts and handwriting we may have never seen before. Letters seem to be sampled on a 30 x 30 grid of Feature Detectors. The fovea which is the most sensitive center of the retina has the greatest concentration of feature detectors. Letters image further from the fovea are sampled by lower concentrations of feature detectors.