CATS 12: Match Emotional Face to Emotional Prosody

Technical Manual

Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond

Created: January 29, 2020

Last Modified: January 02, 2025 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond

Script Copyright © Millisecond Software, LLC

Background

This script implements subtest12 'MATCH EMOTIONAL FACE TO EMOTIONAL PROSODY' of the Comprehensive Affective Testing System - Reduced (CATS-R).

The CATS and CATS-R were created by: Sarah G. Schaffer, PhD Karen B. Froming, PhD Amanda L. Gregory, PhD C. Michael Levy, PhD Paul Ekman, PhD

The script runs with mouse and touch input.

References

Emotion Processing: The Comprehensive Affective Testing System. User Manual. Published 2006 by Psychology Software Inc

Duration

2 minutes

Description

subtest12: MATCH EMOTIONAL FACE TO EMOTIONAL PROSODY

Participants see a face expressing a certain emotion and are given 3 oral sentences read in 3 different emotions. They have to decide which sentence (first, second, third) corresponds to the facial expression of the face.

Procedure

1 Testblock of 12 trials
- 3 happy faces
- 3 angry faces
- 3 sad faces
- 3 neutral faces
The order of the statements is predetermined.

Participants can select from 3 emotion buttons. Responses can be changed until 'next' is pressed.
If button 'repeat' is pressed, the statements get repeated.

By setting parameters.showadvanceButton to true, a '?'-button appears in the upper right corner.
If pressed, the next scheduled test item is skipped.

Stimuli

based on originals - can be edited under section Editable Stimuli

Instructions

based on originals - can be edited in file catsr_subtest12_instructions_inc.iqjs

Scoring

Means and Standard Deviations used to calculate z-scores are taken from the original User Manual
(see above for reference)

Summary Data

File Name: catsr_subtest12_summary*.iqdat

Data Fields

NameDescription
inquisit.version Inquisit version number
computer.platform Device platform: win | mac |ios | android
computer.touch 0 = device has no touchscreen capabilities; 1 = device has touchscreen capabilities
computer.hasKeyboard 0 = no external keyboard detected; 1 = external keyboard detected
startDate Date the session was run
startTime Time the session was run
subjectId Participant ID
groupId Group number
sessionId Session number
elapsedTime Session duration in ms
completed 0 = Test was not completed
1 = Test was completed
subTest "subtest12"
age The age of the participant (if demographics were collected)
gender Female; Male; Other (if demographics were collected)
taskOrder The selected task order (if demographics were collected)
t12RawScore The number of correct responses in subtest12
t12RawScoreCorrected The number of correct responses in subtest12, corrected
in this subtest rawscores do not get corrected
t12ZScore The z-score for the corrected t12RawScore
z-scores get calculated based on Age Means
age < 40 = age group 20-39
41 < age < 60 = age group 40-59
60 > age = age group 60-79
if no age is provided the population mean and standard deviation is used
t12PropCorrect Proportion correct responses in subtest12
t12RT Mean response time (in ms) in subtest12; measured from onset of image until 'nextButton' is pressed
t12CorrRT Mean response time (in ms) of CORRECT responses in subtest12; measured from onset of image until 'nextButton' is pressed
t12t1 Q1 accuracy (1 or 0)
t12t2 Q2 accuracy (1 or 0)
t12t3 Q3 accuracy (1 or 0)
t12t4 Q4 accuracy (1 or 0)
t12t5 Q5 accuracy (1 or 0)
t12t6 Q6 accuracy (1 or 0)
t12t7 Q7 accuracy (1 or 0)
t12t8 Q8 accuracy (1 or 0)
t12t9 Q9 accuracy (1 or 0)
t12t10 Q10 accuracy (1 or 0)
t12t11 Q11 accuracy (1 or 0)
t12t12 Q12 accuracy (1 or 0)

Raw Data

File Name: catsr_subtest12_raw*.iqdat

Data Fields

NameDescription
build Inquisit version number
computer.platform Device platform: win | mac |ios | android
computer.touch 0 = device has no touchscreen capabilities; 1 = device has touchscreen capabilities
computer.hasKeyboard 0 = no external keyboard detected; 1 = external keyboard detected
date Date the session was run
time Time the session was run
subject Participant ID
group Group number
session Session number
subTest "subtest12"
age The age of the participant (if demographics were collected)
gender Female; Male; Other (if demographics were collected)
taskOrder The selected task order (if demographics were collected)
blockcode The name the current block (built-in Inquisit variable)
blocknum The number of the current block (built-in Inquisit variable)
trialcode The name of the currently recorded trial (built-in Inquisit variable)
trialnum The number of the currently recorded trial (built-in Inquisit variable)
trialnum is a built-in Inquisit variable; it counts all trials run
even those that do not store data to the data file.
trialCount Trial counter
subTest12TestItem The index of the selected image
testItemAudio The presented audio file
testItemVisual The presented pic
correctResponse The dedicated correct response
1 = first sentence
2 = second sentence
3 = third sentence
selectedResponse 1-3 (the selected emotion)
correct Accuracy of response: 1 = correct response; 0 = otherwise
rt Cumulative response latency: measured from onset of image until 'nextButton' is pressed

Parameters

The procedure can be adjusted by setting the following parameters.

NameDescriptionDefault
showAdvanceButton True = advanceButton button (to skip a trial) is presented in the upper right corner as a '?'
false = no advanceButton button is presented
false