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Continued reading indicated this area of research may have originated with Dr. Barry Prizant and then abandoned by his peers (along with Gestalt Language Processing.)

Here is an early study of his (bear in mind this was written a long time ago and is more deficit based than his current work.)

Finally, a gestalt mode of cognitive processing is one in which events are remembered or retained with relatively little analysis. Linguistic utterances may or may not be part of such events. A gestalt mode must be viewed in contrast to an analytic mode in which experiences or events are analyzed and segmented into meaningful components based upon prior experience. In an analytic mode, irrelevancies or redundancies are given little attention while new or significant information is abstracted. ...considered analogous to the distinction between the concepts of episodic memory and semantic memory processing cited often in the literature on memory in normal children and adults. "in episodic memory an item is remembered as a whole, with little analysis of its component parts and structure" Retrieval of information from episodic memory involves retrieval of events themselves, as experienced within specific contexts, or knowledge about highly repetitive or routinized activity. semantic memory involves information abstracted from experiences which is organized conceptually for long-term retention.
autistic persons demonstrate much greater success in nonlanguage tasks that can be accomplished by a wholistic or gestalt processing approach.
episodic and semantic memory do not represent a clear-cut dichotomy. A continuum is suggested, ranging from the internal representation of context-specific events (i.e., gestalt, episodic representation) to decontex-tualized generalized knowledge (i.e., abstract symbolic
Cognitive Processing and Learning Patterns in Autism The literature on autism is replete with descriptions of wholistic or gestalt learning excellent rote memory for both visual and auditory information and proficiencies in tasks demanding visu-al-spatial judgment and visual-spatial pattern

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