Sources of Poor Performance on the Rey–Osterrieth Complex Figure Test among Children With Learning Difficulties: A Dynamic Assessment Approach

Kirkwood, Michael W.; Weiler, Michael; Bernstein, Joel E.; Forbes, Peter; Waber, Deborah P.

doi:10.1076/clin.15.3.345.10268

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“…Specifically, while the memory reproductions of children with rightsided injury were as fragmented as their copies, the reproductions of children with left-sided injury were organized around the core central rectangle (Akshoomoff et al, 2002;Akshoomoff & Stiles, 2003). In a study of children referred for learning problems, performance on the ROCF was poor initially but improved for most children when they were instructed to copy the figure using a structural approach (Kirkwood et al, 2001). The authors concluded that poor initial performance on the ROCF task results from a failure to spontaneously apprehend and utilize the organizing framework inherent in the figure, and may reflect metacognitive rather than basic perceptual or spatial processing deficits in children with learning difficulties.…”

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Perceptual organization and visual immediate memory in children with specific language impairment

Akshoomoff

Stiles

Wulfeck

2006

J. Inter. Neuropsych. Soc.

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Children with specific language impairment (LI) have deficits on some nonverbal tasks, but it is not clear if these are related to specific visuospatial deficits or to more general deficits in processing strategies. Children with LI were given two visuospatial tasks that we have shown to be sensitive to strategy use as well as specific processing deficits. In Study 1, children with LI (N=29, ages 6 to 12 years) performed significantly worse than typically developing children (N=26) on the Hierarchical Forms Memory task. In Study 2, children with LI (N=15; ages 9 to 12 years) performed significantly worse than typically developing children (N=40) on the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure task. Children with LI were less accurate and tended to use a fairly piecemeal (immature) strategy when copying the figure and were less likely to draw the core rectangle in a more integrated fashion during the immediate memory condition. These results suggest children with LI have subtle deficits on visuospatial tasks that may be more indicative of limitations associated with processing load and planning than of specific visuospatial processing deficits.

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Perceptual organization and visual immediate memory in children with specific language impairment

Akshoomoff

Stiles

Wulfeck

2006

J. Inter. Neuropsych. Soc.

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“…Within the extant pediatric literature, the ROCF has been utilized as a measure of visuospatial perception, learning and memory (Baron, 2000) in research with several populations including typically developing youth (Beebe, Ris, Brown, & Dietrich, 2004), epilepsy (Hernandez et al, 2003), phenylketonuria (Antshel & Waisbren, 2003), preterm children (Waber & McCormick, 1995), learning disabilities (Kirkwood et al, 2001) and ADHD (Sami, Carte, Hinshaw, & Zupan, 2003;Seidman et al, 1995). All of these studies found the ROCF to be a sensitive measure to the cognitive difficulties of the identified clinical group.…”

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Associations Between Performance on the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure and Regional Brain Volumes in Children with and without Velocardiofacial Syndrome

Antshel¹,

Peebles²,

AbdulSabur³

et al. 2008

Developmental Neuropsychology

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Ninety-two children with velocardiofacial syndrome (VCFS), a genetic disorder caused by a microdeletion of chromosome 22q11.2 and an age, race and gender-ratio comparable sample of 59 control participants were included in the project. Participants received a MRI as well as a comprehensive neuropsychological battery; the primary outcome measure in the current report is the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure (ROCF). Children with VCFS performed less well on the ROCF and have lower whole brain volume compared to controls. After controlling for whole brain volume differences, children with VCFS have bilaterally less parietal lobe gray and white matter yet more frontal lobe white matter. Brain -behavior relationships include: (a) for both groups, parietal volumes (both gray and white matter) predicted ROCF Copy Organization performance and frontal volumes (both gray and white matter) predicted ROCF Copy Accuracy performance; (b) for controls, frontal white matter also predicted ROCF Copy Organization performance; (c) ROCF Recall Organization performance was best predicted by frontal gray matter volume only in our controls; ROCF Recall Accuracy performance was best predicted by frontal gray matter volume in both groups; and (d) in children with VCFS, performance on the ROCF-Copy Structural Elements Accuracy scale was predicted by right hemisphere white matter volume. Our hypotheses were also retested using IQmatched and whole brain volume-matched subsamples. Identical results were obtained in these analyses. Assumptions about the organization of and the localization of the brain structures that subserve specific cognitive functions in the typically developing brain may not apply in the abnormally developing brain. NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author ManuscriptVelocardiofacial syndrome (VCFS), a chromosomal deletion disorder of 22q11.2 (3 Mb, 25-30 genes) affects 1 in 2000-5000 individuals . The deletion syndrome is associated with multiple congenital anomalies, including cardiac malformations, hearing loss, hypocalcaemia, velopharyngeal insufficiency and cleft palate (Ryan et al., 1997). Phenotypic facial abnormalities include a long face, pear-shaped nose, small ears with overfolded helicies, and vertically narrow eyes (Antshel et al., 2005). VCFS is associated with cognitive and developmental delays and the vast majority of children with VCFS experience academic difficulties, especially in math (Simon et al., 2002;Swillen et al., 1997;Swillen et al., 1999). Executive functioning deficits including difficulties shifting attention and a poorly developed working memory have also been indicated (Woodin et al., 2000). Most, but not all, children with VCFS exhibit deficits in abstract and nonverbal reasoning and visuospatial abilities (Moss et al., 1999). Some have hypothesized that VCFS is an exemplar of the nonverbal learning disability (NLD; Rourke et al., 2002;Swillen et al., 1999).The VCFS behavioral phenotype includes poor social skills, introversion, disinhibition, impulsivity, anxiet...

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“…The ROCF has also been used in individuals with traumatic brain injury (Ashton, Donders, & Hoffman, 2005) and individuals with aneurysms of the anterior communicating artery (Diamon & DeLucas, 1996). Within the pediatric literature, the ROCF has been used to measure visuospatial perception, learning, and memory (Baron, 2000) in research with several populations including typically developing youth (Beebe, Ris, Brown, & Dietrich, 2004), and preterm children (Waber & McCormick, 1995), as well as children with phenylketonuria (Antshel & Waisbren, 2003), epilepsy (Hernandez et al, 2003), learning disabilities (Kirkwood, Weiler, Berstein, Forbes, & Waber, 2001), and ADHD (Sami, Carte, Hinshaw, & Zupan, 2003;Seidman et al,1995).…”

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Rey–Osterrieth Complex Figure – copy and immediate recall: Normative data for the Latin American Spanish speaking adult population

Rivera

Perrin

Paredes

et al. 2015

NRE

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Abstract. OBJECTIVE:To generate normative data on the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test (ROCF) across 11 countries in Latin America, with country-specific adjustments for gender, age, and education, where appropriate. METHOD: The sample consisted of 3,977 healthy adults who were recruited from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and, Puerto Rico. Each subject was administered the ROCF as part of a larger neuropsychological battery. A standardized five-step statistical procedure was used to generate the norms. RESULTS:The final multiple linear regression models explained 7-34% of the variance in ROCF copy scores and 21-41% of the variance in immediate recall scores. Although t-tests showed significant differences between men and women on ROCF copy and immediate recall scores, none of the countries had an effect size larger than 0.3. As a result, gender-adjusted norms were not generated.

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Sources of Poor Performance on the Rey–Osterrieth Complex Figure Test among Children With Learning Difficulties: A Dynamic Assessment Approach

Cited by 53 publications

References 9 publications

Perceptual organization and visual immediate memory in children with specific language impairment

Perceptual organization and visual immediate memory in children with specific language impairment

Associations Between Performance on the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure and Regional Brain Volumes in Children with and without Velocardiofacial Syndrome

Rey–Osterrieth Complex Figure – copy and immediate recall: Normative data for the Latin American Spanish speaking adult population

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