Rey-Osterreith complex figure

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    The Rey-Osterreith complex figure is a very detailed and complicated drawing that resembles a flag with smaller components attached and implanted within the drawing.  Such components include a happy face and a variety of additional shapes and lines.  This figure is for neuropsychologists to test participants who have brain damage, more specifically those with right temporo-parietal regional damage.  The participant simply has to try and memorize the picture for a given amount of time, and draw the figure from memory. 
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    This figure is used to assess the constructional skills of the patients with right parietal brain damage and asks for the patient to call upon skills such as hand-eye coordination, memory, and spatial abilities.
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Revision as of 01:55, 25 April 2008

    The Rey-Osterreith complex figure is a very detailed and complicated drawing that resembles a flag with smaller components attached and implanted within the drawing.  Such components include a happy face and a variety of additional shapes and lines.  This figure is for neuropsychologists to test participants who have brain damage, more specifically those with right temporo-parietal regional damage.  The participant simply has to try and memorize the picture for a given amount of time, and draw the figure from memory.  
    This figure is used to assess the constructional skills of the patients with right parietal brain damage and asks for the patient to call upon skills such as hand-eye coordination, memory, and spatial abilities.


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