{"id":7454,"date":"2019-05-22T15:57:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/central_coherence\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:57:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:57:03","slug":"central_coherence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/central_coherence\/","title":{"rendered":"Central coherence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ability to integrate information into a gestalt (a perceptual structure possessing qualities that go beyond its constituent elements or parts, and that cannot be described solely in terms of its parts), or to build up a global picture. &nbsp;This particular ability appears to be a particular strength with those individuals diagnosed as autistic (e.g., as assessed by performance on the Embedded Figures test).<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"autism\">Autism<\/a>, <a href=\"embedded_figures_test_-eft-\">Embedded Figures test (EFT)<\/a>, Gestalt good form<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ability to integrate information into a gestalt (a perceptual structure possessing qualities that go beyond its constituent elements or parts, and that cannot be described solely in terms of its parts), or to build up a global picture. &nbsp;This particular ability appears to be a particular strength with those individuals diagnosed as autistic (e.g., &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/central_coherence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Central coherence&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}