Right- and Left-hand Performance on the Rey–Osterrieth Complex Figure: A Preliminary Study in Non-clinical Sample of Right Handed People

• Published in: Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology Vol. 25; no. 4; pp. 314 - 317
• Main Author: Yamashita, H.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 01.06.2010; Oxford University Press (OUP)
• Subjects: Adolescent; Attention; Biological and medical sciences; Female; Functional Laterality; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Hemiplegia; Hemiplegia - psychology; Human; Humans; Intermanual differences; Learning. Memory; Male; Memory; Mental Recall; Neuropsychological Tests; Neuropsychological Tests - statistics & numerical data; Pattern Recognition, Visual; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Psychometrics; Psychometrics - statistics & numerical data; Psychomotor Performance; Reference Values; Reproducibility of Results; Rey–Osterrieth Complex Figure Test; Visuospatial memory; Young Adult; Human; Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test; Healthy subject; Visual memory; Neuropsychological test; Psychometrics; Cognition; Bimanual activity; Handedness; Intermanual differences; Neuropsychological tests; Complex Figure Test Rey Osterrieth; Performance; Motricity; Visuospatial memory; Spatial memory
• ISSN: 0887-6177; 1873-5843; 1873-5843
• DOI: 10.1093/arclin/acq019

Intermanual differences in performing the Rey–Osterrieth Complex Figure Test (ROCFT) were experimentally investigated. Undergraduate participants (n = 120; 60 men, 60 women) were randomly assigned to one of four groups based on the hand used in a copy trial and a recall test. Hand use had a minimal effect on performance in the copy trial. However, recall accuracy was lower when the non-dominant left hand was used in the copy trial than when the dominant right hand was used, regardless of the hand used in the recall test. These findings are important from a clinical perspective, especially in cases in which patients use the non-dominant hand due to hemiplegia of the dominant hand when conducting the ROCFT.