title: EMOTICOM: A Neuropsychological Test Battery to Evaluate Emotion, Motivation, Impulsivity, and Social Cognition.
abstract: In mental health practice, both pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments are aimed at improving neuropsychological symptoms, including cognitive and emotional impairments. However, at present there is no established neuropsychological test battery that comprehensively covers multiple affective domains relevant in a range of disorders. Our objective was to generate a standardized test battery, comprised of existing, adapted and novel tasks, to assess four core domains of affective cognition (emotion processing, motivation, impulsivity and social cognition) in order to facilitate and enhance treatment development and evaluation in a broad range of neuropsychiatric disorders. The battery was administered to 200 participants aged 18-50 years (50% female), 42 of whom were retested in order to assess reliability. An exploratory factor analysis identified 11 factors with eigenvalues greater than 1, which accounted for over 70% of the variance. Tasks showed moderate to excellent test-retest reliability and were not strongly correlated with demographic factors such as age or IQ. The EMOTICOM test battery is therefore a promising tool for the assessment of affective cognitive function in a range of contexts.
authors.affiliation: Neuroscience and Psychiatry Unit, University of Manchester Manchester, UK.
authors.forename: Amy R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Bland
authors.affiliation: Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London London, UK.
authors.forename: Jonathan P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Roiser
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Kings College London London, UK.
authors.forename: Mitul A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Mehta
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK.
authors.forename: Thea
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Schei
authors.affiliation: Neuroscience and Psychiatry Unit, University of Manchester Manchester, UK.
authors.forename: Heather
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Boland
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of Sussex Brighton, UK.
authors.forename: Daniel K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Campbell-Meiklejohn
authors.affiliation: Institute of Population Health, University of Manchester Manchester, UK.
authors.forename: Richard A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Emsley
authors.affiliation: School of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: Marcus R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Munafo
authors.affiliation: School of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: Ian S
authors.initials: IS
authors.lastname: Penton-Voak
authors.affiliation: Psychology and Language Sciences, University College LondonLondon, UK; School of Psychology, University of MinhoGuimaraes, Portugal.
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Seara-Cardoso
authors.affiliation: Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London London, UK.
authors.forename: Essi
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Viding
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of CambridgeCambridge, UK; Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, University of CambridgeCambridge, UK.
authors.forename: Valerie
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Voon
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of CambridgeCambridge, UK; Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, University of CambridgeCambridge, UK.
authors.forename: Barbara J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Sahakian
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of CambridgeCambridge, UK; Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, University of CambridgeCambridge, UK.
authors.forename: Trevor W
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Robbins
authors.affiliation: Neuroscience and Psychiatry Unit, University of Manchester Manchester, UK.
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Elliott
keywords: EMOTICOM; implusivity; mental health; motivation and emotion; neuropsychiatry; neuropsychological tests; social cognition