Organizational quality on the Rey-Osterrieth and Taylor Complex Figure Tests: A new scoring system.

A new system for measuring organizational quality on the Complex Figure Test (Rey, 1942; Taylor, 1969) is described. This system extends the traditional use of the test as a measure of constructional ability and figural memory. The new system is easy to learn, quick to score, and shows very good interrater reliability. Organizational quality was found to correlate moderately with copy accuracy, half-hour recall, and percentage retained. In an initial application of the system (N = 63), organizational quality of the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure successfully discriminated between symptomatic (those with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome [AIDS] or AIDS-related complex [ARC]) and asymptomatic subjects positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), but organizational quality ratings of the Taylor figure did not