This test evaluates the visuospatial perception of the subject, as well as visual memory, visuoconstruction skills and visual conceptualization.
A clinical significant verbal memory change was defined as a decline of >16% and a significant visual memory change as a decline of >28%.
A similar effect has been observed in individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder whose behavioural performance was the same as controls in a visual working memory task [ 70].
The Rey Complex Figure Test (RCFT) [ 39], recall condition, was included as a test of visual memory function.
However, the supplemental Family Pictures subtests, despite being presented as a test of visual memory, appear to be related to verbal working memory.
Creaky floorboards, cobwebs, chains: you name it, the haunted houses in Scooby Doo are printed upon my visual memory, as technicolour as 70's strawberry Angel Delight.
Although this was accompanied by a significant increase in performance IQ, as measured by the WASI-R, it was also accompanied by a significant decrease in delayed visual memory, as measured by the Rey Osterreith Complex Figure Test (ROCFT).
This is consistent with our expectations, as the visual memory load is much higher for formulae with their long-range dependencies compared to the single items in the list, which correspond to local dependencies.
Yet, disturbances remained in the short- and long-term logical memory, as well as in visual memory, and in motor tasks such as alternation and coordination, which implies programming and motor regulation injury.
Memory reproduction informs us of the visual memory of the subject, as well as of his or her visuoconstruction capacity.
"We've got to provide access on the same level as visual memory".
