André Rey (1906–1965) was a Swiss

psychologist A psychologist is a professional who practices psychology and studies mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior. Their work often involves the experimentation, observation, and explanation, interpretatio ...

who first developed the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure and the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test. Both tests are widely used in

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. Rey was considered to be a pioneer in clinical psychology, child psychology, and neuropsychology. Rey is known in American neuropsychological literature for his "tests of malingering". Rey's tests of

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include the Rey 15-Item Memory Test (RMT), the Rey Word Recognitions Test (WRT), and the Rey Dot Counting Test (DCT).

Publications

*Translations of excerpts from Andre Rey"s Psychological examination of traumatic encephalopathy and P. A. Osterrieth"s The Complex Figure Copy Test, Rey, A., & Osterrieth, P. A. (1993).

References

1906 births 1965 deaths 20th-century Swiss psychologists {{psychologist-stub