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This paper discusses the dichotomy between continually moving eyes and the lack of blurred visual experience. A discontinuous model of visual perception is proposed, with the discontinuities being phase and temporally related to saccadic eye movements. It is further proposed that deviant duration and angular velocity characteristics of saccades in patients with hypertonic motor impairment relate to information processing deficits. Stabilized retinal images of stimuli, which bypass the effects of deviant patterns of scanning and fixation in the model, significantly increLse the ability of these patients to actively recall information presented for durations of less than three seconds, which is essentially greater than the duration of the single scan during reading. Implications of the informational components of evoked potentials and electrophysiclogy, for diagnosis of status of fundamental reading skills, figure-ground perception, objective refraction, and visual perception in general are discussed. Also, therapeutic intervention in basic deficits in the reading process is examined. (Author/RR) U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. EDUCATION / WELFARE NATIONAL INS,ITUTE OF EDUCATION TH,S DOCUMENT HAS SEEN REPRO DUCED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED FROM THE PERSON OR ORGANIZATION ORIGIN ANNG IT POINTS or VIEW OR OPINIONS STATED DO NOT NECESSARILY REPRE SENT OFFICIAL NATtONAI INSTITUTE 0F EDUCATION POSITION OR °OLICY OCULAR -MOTOR FUNCTION AND INFORMATION PROCESSING: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE READING PROCESS GERALD LEISMAN 1 ' 2