Comprehensive Affect Testing System (CATS)
FREE for use with an Inquisit Lab or Inquisit Web license.Available Test Variations
A battery of 13 subtests measuring different aspects of emotional cognition and processing by Froming et al (2006).
Participants decide whether two presented faces are the same people
Participants decide whether two presented faces show the same emotion.
Participants decide whether two spoken statements sound the same.
Participants decide whether the emotions in two spoken statements are the same.
Participants are presented one face at a time (6 altogether) and have to identify the emotion of the face.
Participants are presented with 12 spoken sentences and have to categorize the expressed emotion.
Participants are select which of 5 faces matches the affect of a target face.
Participants are select which of 5 faces matches the affect of a stated emotion.
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.
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.
Participants are asked to select the facial expression (5 choices) that reflects the emotion of a person reading a neutral sentence.
Participants decide which of 3 sentences read in an emotional tone corresponds to the emotional expression of a given face.
Participants see 3 faces and decide which two depict the same emotion.
The polish version runs 3 subtests of the CATS-R (subtest1, subtest2, subtest8)
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.