Rey-Osterreith complex figure

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The Rey-Osterreith complex figure (ROCF) was created by the Swiss psychologist Andre Rey in 1941. Rey created this figure to assess perceptual organization and visual memory in subjects with brain injury. Standardized instructions for the complex figure were published by Osterreith in 1944. Recently, this neuropsychological test has been widely used in subjects of all ages as a tool for measuring the decision-making function that is arbitrated by the prefrontal lobe. The ROCF is comprised of three test conditions: copy, immediate recall, and delayed recall. In the copy condition, the subjects are given the ROCF and asked to draw what they see. Then, in the immediate recall condition, the subjects are shown the complex figure again and then asked to draw what they remember immediately after the figure is removed. Finally, in the delayed recall condition, the subjects are shown the complex figure, and after a delay of thirty minutes are asked to draw the same figure again. The subjects are allotted ten minutes for each section of the ROCF. A similar test, the Modified Taylor Complex Figure, was developed as an alternative to the ROCF but has been shown in many recent studies to be easier to learn and remember as well as producing analogous total scores, completion times, and validity coefficients.