Comprehensive Affect Testing System (CATS)
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Comprehensive Affect Testing System - Reduced Battery (CATS-R) in Polish
The polish version runs 3 subtests of the CATS-R (subtest1, subtest2, subtest8)
Comprehensive Affect Testing System - Complete Battery (CATS-R)
A battery of 13 subtests measuring different aspects of emotional cognition and processing by Froming et al (2006).
Subtest 1: Identity Discrimination
Participants decide whether two presented faces are the same people
Subtest 2: Affect Discrimination
Participants decide whether two presented faces show the same emotion.
Subtest 3: Nonemotional Prosody Discrimination
Participants decide whether two spoken statements sound the same.
Subtest 4: Emotional Prosody Discrimination
Participants decide whether the emotions in two spoken statements are the same.
Subtest 5: Name Affect
Participants are presented one face at a time (6 altogether) and have to identify the emotion of the face.
Subtest 6: Name Prosody
Participants are presented with 12 spoken sentences and have to categorize the expressed emotion.
Subtest 7: Match Affect
Participants are select which of 5 faces matches the affect of a target face.
Subtest 8: Select Affect
Participants are select which of 5 faces matches the affect of a stated emotion.
Subtest 9: Conflicting Prosody/Meaning – Attend Prosody
Participants listen to 12 sentences spoken in a happy, sad or neutral voice and must identify the emotion of the voice while ignoring the meaning of the sentence.
Subtest 10: Conflicting Prosody/Meaning – Attend Meaning
Participants listen to 12 sentences spoken in a happy, sad or neutral voice and have to identify the affective meaning of the sentence content ignoring the emotional tone of the voice.
Subtest 11: Match Emotional Prosody to Emotional Face
Participants are asked to select the facial expression (5 choices) that reflects the emotion of a person reading a neutral sentence.
Subtest 12: Match Emotional Face to Emotional Prosody
Participants decide which of 3 sentences read in an emotional tone corresponds to the emotional expression of a given face.
Subtest 13: Three Faces Test
Participants see 3 faces and decide which two depict the same emotion.
References
Search Google Scholar for peer-reviewed, published research using the Inquisit Comprehensive Affect Testing System (CATS).
Froming, K.B., Gregory, A., Levy, C.M., & Ekman, P. (2006). The Comprehensive Affective Testing System. User’s Manual. Gainesville, FL: Psychology Software Tools, Inc.
Ventura, Maria I, Baynes, Kathleen, Sigvardt, Karen A, Unruh, April M, Acklin, Sarah S, Kirsch, Heidi E, & Disbrow, Elizabeth A. (2012). Hemispheric asymmetries and prosodic emotion recognition deficits in Parkinson's disease. Neuropsychologia, 50(8), 1936-1945.
Brand, Jesse G, Mindt, Monica Rivera, Schaffer, Sarah G, Alper, Kenneth R, Devinsky, Orrin, & Barr, William B. (2012). Emotion processing bias and age of seizure onset among epilepsy patients with depressive symptoms. Epilepsy & Behavior, 25(4), 552-557.
Hulka, Lea M, Preller, Katrin H, Vonmoos, Matthias, Broicher, Sarah D, & Quednow, Boris B. (2013). Cocaine users manifest impaired prosodic and cross-modal emotion processing. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 4, 98.
Albuquerque, Luisa, Coelho, Miguel, Martins, Maurício, Guedes, Leonor Correia, Rosa, Mário M, Ferreira, Joaquim J, . . . Martins, Isabel Pavão. (2013). STN-DBS does not change emotion recognition in advanced Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, 20(2), 166-169.
Rossell, Susan L, Van Rheenen, Tamsyn E, Groot, Christopher, Gogos, Andrea, O’Regan, Alison, & Joshua, Nicole R. (2013). Investigating affective prosody in psychosis: A study using the Comprehensive Affective Testing System. Psychiatry Research, 210(3), 896-900.
Hoertnagl, Christine M, Biedermann, Falko, Yalcin-Siedentopf, Nursen, Muehlbacher, Moritz, Rauch, Anna-Sophia, Baumgartner, Susanne, . . . Hofer, Alex. (2015). Prosodic and semantic affect perception in remitted patients with bipolar I disorder. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 76(6), E779-E786.
Albuquerque, Luisa, Martins, Maurício, Coelho, Miguel, Guedes, Leonor, Ferreira, Joaquim J, Rosa, Mário, & Martins, Isabel Pavão. (2016). Advanced Parkinson disease patients have impairment in prosody processing. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 38(2), 208-216.
Andrews, Sophie C, Staios, Mathew, Howe, Jim, Reardon, Katrina, & Fisher, Fiona. (2017). Multimodal Emotion Processing Deficits Are Present in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Neuropsychology, 31(3), 304-310.