The Micro-16 (Individual) Framework

1. Sensory Sensitivity

This marker reflects a heightened or atypical responsivity to sensory input, often across modalities such as sound, light, texture, or movement. Individuals may notice subtle environmental variations that others overlook. Sensory channels may operate with higher resolution, creating both strengths and vulnerabilities. The marker captures variation in perceptual tuning rather than pathology.

2. Motor Atypia

Motor patterns may diverge from population norms in rhythm, coordination, or fluidity. These differences often appear as unusual gait, fine motor variability, or distinct postural habits. Atypical motor expression may correlate with internal cognitive states, revealing alignment between movement patterns and internal processing. The marker highlights variation rather than impairment.

3. Attention Style

This trait captures a preference for sustained, narrow, or deeply focused attention. Individuals may selectively filter environmental stimuli to maintain engagement with a specific task or idea. Such focus can be productive in structured contexts but may reduce responsiveness to competing social or environmental cues. The marker emphasizes attention orientation rather than capacity.

4. Processing Speed

Processing may follow an asynchronous tempo, rapid in some cognitive domains and slow in others. Peaks often occur during abstract reasoning, pattern analysis, or problem solving. Slower tempo may emerge during social interpretation or multi-sensory integration. The marker describes unevenness rather than overall speed.

5. Pattern Detection

Individuals may show an enhanced ability to identify structure, regularity, correlations, and underlying rules. This can appear in language, systems, mathematics, or social dynamics. Pattern salience can guide reasoning and decision making. The marker emphasizes perceptual and cognitive orientation toward structure.

6. Abstraction Capacity

There is a preference for conceptual thinking, symbolic reasoning, and meta-level analysis. Abstract frameworks may feel more intuitive than concrete or situational reasoning. Individuals often gravitate toward theory, models, and general principles. The marker reflects a cognitive preference rather than intellectual hierarchy.

7. Systemizing Drive

This marker captures a consistent orientation toward mechanisms, structures, rules, and scalable systems. Individuals may seek coherence, predictability, and internal logic. The drive often supports analytical problem solving in technology, science, or organizational contexts. It reflects how information is organized rather than what is valued.

8. Emotional Regulation

Affective experience may be processed through cognitive, reflective, or internalized channels. Emotional states are often modulated by analysis, self-observation, or deliberate control strategies. This can support stability in complex environments but may reduce spontaneous emotional expression. The marker describes processing style rather than emotional depth.

9. Empathic Mode

Empathy may manifest in the form of cognitive perspective taking rather than automatic affective resonance. Individuals may understand others through reasoning about intentions, patterns, or mental models. The trait supports clarity in complicated interpersonal situations but may be less intuitive in emotionally charged environments. It reflects mode, not quantity, of empathy.

10. Social Intuition

Individuals may rely more on explicit inference than on automatic recognition of social cues. Interpretation of facial expressions, tone, or group dynamics may require conscious analysis. This creates strengths in structured or predictable environments but challenges in spontaneous social settings. The marker highlights the route of social understanding rather than competence.

11. Communication Style

Communication may be dense, information rich, or layered with detail and precision. Individuals often value clarity, accuracy, and conceptual coherence. This can create mismatches in conversational tempo and expectations in informal environments. The marker describes communication architecture rather than intention.

12. Identity Coherence

Identity may be organized around internal principles, long-range commitments, or stable conceptual frameworks. Individuals often articulate a consistent sense of self across time and contexts. This coherence can support autonomy and purpose but may reduce situational flexibility. The marker captures structure rather than content of identity.

13. Moral Cognition

Moral reasoning may emphasize rules, principles, or universalizable standards rather than relational or situational cues. Individuals may apply ethical frameworks consistently across contexts. This can enhance fairness and predictability but may reduce responsiveness to social nuance. The marker describes orientation within moral reasoning frameworks.

14. Spiritual Orientation

Engagement with the transcendent may be interior, contemplative, or conceptually mediated. Individuals may prefer solitary reflection, philosophical interpretation, or symbolic frameworks. Spiritual meaning may be pursued through analysis rather than communal ritual. The marker highlights the cognitive route to spiritual engagement.

15. Adaptive Behavior

Adaptation often relies on innovation, internal problem solving, and context rebuilding rather than norm following. Individuals may restructure environments to fit cognitive strengths. This can generate creative solutions but may conflict with established expectations. The marker describes adaptive strategy rather than adaptability level.

16. Sexuality and Intimate Bonding

Bonding and sexuality may be cognitively mediated, atypically configured, or expressed through alternative relational patterns. Individuals may form deep connections through shared interests, intellectual intimacy, or principled commitment rather than conventional social scripts. Variability may appear in relationship structures, pacing, or attachment expression. The marker addresses bonding orientation rather than normative deviation.