English Version ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ *Comprehensive Affective Testing System - Reduced (CATS-R)* *subtest9: CONFLICTING PROSODY—ATTEND TO PROSODY* *Mouse or Touch Input* ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Date: 09-29-2020 last updated: 04-21-2025 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Script Copyright © 04-21-2025 Millisecond Software ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BACKGROUND INFO ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This script implements subtest9 'CONFLICTING PROSODY—ATTEND TO 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 Reference for Means and Standard Deviations used to calculate z-scores: Emotion Processing: The Comprehensive Affective Testing System. User Manual. Published 2006 by Psychology Software Inc ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ TASK DESCRIPTION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ subtest9: CONFLICTING PROSODY—ATTEND TO PROSODY Participants listen to 12 sentences spoken in either a happy, sad or neutral voice and have to identify the emotion ignoring the content of the sentence (which might conflict with the emotion) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DURATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ the default set-up of the script takes appr. 2 minutes to complete ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DATA OUTPUT DICTIONARY ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The fields in the data files are: (1) Raw data file: 'catsr_subtest9_raw*.iqdat' (a separate file for each participant)* build: The specific Inquisit version used (the 'build') that was run computer.platform: the platform the script was run on (win/mac/ios/android) date, time: date and time script was run subject, group: with the current subject/groupnumber session: with the current session id subTest: "subtest9" //if the subtest is run via a batch script that collects gender/age/taskOrder information: age: the age of the participant gender: Female; Male; Other taskOrder: the selected task order blockCode, blockNum: the name and number of the current block (built-in Inquisit variable) trialCode, trialNum: the name and number of the currently recorded trial (built-in Inquisit variable) Note: 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 subTest9TestItem: the index of the selected image testItem: the presented audio file correctResponse: the dedicated correct response: 1 = happy 2 = sad 4 = neutral selectedResponse: happy, sad, neutral correct: accuracy of response: 1 = correct response; 0 = otherwise rt: cumulative response latency: measured from onset of image until 'nextButton' is pressed (2) Summary data file: 'catsr_subtest9_summary*.iqdat' (a separate file for each participant)* inquisit.version: Inquisit version run computer.platform: the platform the script was run on (win/mac/ios/android) startDate: date script was run startTime: time script was started subjectId: assigned subject id number groupId: assigned group id number sessionId: assigned session id number elapsedTime: time it took to run script (in ms); measured from onset to offset of script completed: 0 = script was not completed (prematurely aborted); 1 = script was completed (all conditions run) subTest: "subtest9" //if the subtest is run via a batch script that collects gender/age/taskOrder information: age: the age of the participant gender: Female; Male; Other taskOrder: the selected task order t9RawScore: the number of correct responses in subtest9 t9RawScoreCorrected: the number of correct responses in subtest9, corrected (Note: in this subtest rawscores do not get corrected for gender) t9ZScore: the z-score for the corrected T9_rawscore (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) t9PropCorrect: proportion correct responses in subtest9 t9RT: mean response time (in ms) in subtest9; measured from onset of image until 'nextButton' is pressed t9CorrRT: mean response time (in ms) of CORRECT responses in subtest9; measured from onset of image until 'nextButton' is pressed + results from individual questions ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ EXPERIMENTAL SET-UP ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1 Testblock of 12 trials - 5 happy sounding sentences - 5 sad sounding sentences - 2 neutral sounding sentences 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. Note: 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_subtest9_instructions_inc.iqjs ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ EDITABLE CODE ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ check below for (relatively) easily editable parameters, stimuli, instructions etc. Keep in mind that you can use this script as a template and therefore always "mess" with the entire code to further customize your experiment. The parameters you can change are: / showAdvanceButton = false //true = advanceButton button (to skip a trial) is presented in the upper right corner as a '?' //false = no advanceButton button is presented