Bender herself said it was "a method of evaluating maturation of gestalt functioning children 4-11's brain functioning by which it responds to a given constellation of stimuli as a whole, the response being a motor process of patterning the perceived gestalt."
Bender described it as a method of assessing the maturation of children's brain functioning, specifically in the age range of 4 to 11 years old. This method evaluates how their brains respond to a specific set of stimuli as a whole, resulting in a motor process that patterns the perceived gestalt.