Memory for the Rey-Osterrieth Figure: Perceptual clustering, encoding, and storage.

Administered copy, immediate recall, and delayed recall conditions of the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure (ROCF) test to 50 neuropsychiatric patients (aged 23–83 yrs). Measures of copy accuracy, perceptual clustering, encoding, and savings were computed. Perceptual clustering in the copy condition was a better predictor of memory performance than was copy accuracy. An absence of association between the encoding score and the savings score suggests that these indices reflect different cognitive processes. The need to assess both immediate and delayed recall of the ROCF is emphasized. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)