utistic perception is characterized by: enhanced low-level
operations; locally oriented processing as a default setting; greater activation of perceptual areas during a range of visuospatial,
language, working memory or reasoning tasks; autonomy towards higher processes; and superior involvement in intelligence.
We
now propose that enhanced detection of patterns, including similarity within and among patterns, is one of the mechanisms
responsible for operations on human codes, a type of material with which savants show particular facility.
A second mechanism, related to but exceeding the existing concept of redintegration,
involves completion, or filling-in, of missing information in memorized or perceived units or structures.