Factor loadings and item break down | Factor loading | Item domain | ||||
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Item | Control group | ASC group | ||||
Fac1 | Fac2 | Fac1 | Fac2 | |||
1 | I would notice if someone added 5 grains of salt to my cup of water. | .34 | -.18 | .38 | -.35 | Taste-salty |
2a | I would be able to distinguish different people by their smell. | .60 | .23 | .42 | -.22 | Smell-social |
3 | I wouldn’t notice if someone added a spoonful of sugar to my tea. | .02 | .15 | .35 | .40 | Taste-sweet |
4 | I wouldn’t be afraid of hurting myself when falling off my bike at high speed. | .04 | -.01 | .03 | .52 | Touch-pain |
5 | I wouldn’t be able to detect the motion of the blades of a rotating fan even when it is at minimum speed. | .09 | .36 | .30 | .48 | Vision-motion |
6 | The sound of a piano and a violin playing the same note seems very similar to me. | -.02 | .22 | .26 | .39 | Hearing-complexity |
7a | I would be able to detect if a strawberry was ripe by smell alone. | .38 | .25 | .55 | -.11 | Smell-food |
8 | I would be able to distinguish milk chocolate and dark chocolate by their taste alone. | .31 | .33 | .47 | .09 | Taste-sweet |
9 | I cannot tolerate hot showers (above 40°C /105°F). | .16 | -.28 | .23 | -.12 | Touch-pain |
10 | I wouldn’t need an anaesthetic to cope with a dental procedure, such as a cavity-filling. | -.02 | -.03 | .13 | .39 | Touch-pain |
11 | I would have to wait for 10 minutes for a hot drink to cool down before swallowing it, otherwise it would be too hot for me. | .27 | -.19 | .26 | -.16 | Touch-temperature |
12a | I would be able to visually detect the change in brightness of a light each time a dimmer control moved one notch. | .49 | .04 | .60 | -.23 | Vision-brightness |
13 | I wouldn’t be able to detect large objects, such as parked cars, clearly on a dark night. | -.12 | .46 | .33 | .42 | Vision-brightness |
14a | I would notice if someone added 5 drops of lemon juice to my cup of water. | .48 | .13 | .56 | -.08 | Taste-sour |
15 | I would be the last person to detect if something was burning. | .43 | .30 | .58 | .46 | Smell-danger |
16 | I wouldn’t be able to feel the vibrations from loud music if I was sitting next to the loud speaker (for example, at a concert). | .04 | .19 | .38 | .65 | Touch-vibration |
17 | I wouldn’t be able to feel a small volume change in music as a difference in vibration on my skin. | -.30 | .19 | -.63 | .02 | Touch-vibration |
18 | I can’t hear the TV when it is quiet, even when other people can. | .01 | .41 | .33 | .21 | Hearing-loudness |
19a | I would be able to hear a leaf move if blown by the wind on a quiet street. | .43 | .05 | .59 | -.20 | Hearing-loudness |
20 | I wouldn’t be able to taste the difference between two pieces of dark chocolate. | .34 | .18 | .60 | .10 | Taste-sweet |
21a | I would be able to taste the difference between two brands of salty potato chips/crisps. | .48 | .17 | .60 | -.11 | Taste-salty |
22 | When people are talking the words seem to merge together. | -.32 | .60 | -.08 | .42 | Hearing-complexity |
23 | I can only look at bright colours for a brief period of time. | .34 | -.61 | .48 | -.47 | Vision-colour |
24 | I would lose my balance very easily if I was standing on one foot with my eyes closed. | .25 | -.51 | .03 | -.41 | Hearing-vestibular |
25 | I wouldn’t be able to smell a barbecue from 60 feet (20 metres) away. | .40 | .27 | .52 | .41 | Smell-food |
26 | I can’t spin round and round without falling over. | -.17 | .42 | -.24 | .33 | Hearing-vestibular |
27 | I wouldn’t notice a 10 degree difference in temperature of the weather. | .22 | .36 | .24 | .57 | Touch-temperature |
28 | I can drink tea/coffee ‘straight’, without needing to add milk or sugar. | .20 | -.26 | .23 | .06 | Taste-bitter |
29 | I can’t hear the bass in music. | .30 | .35 | .45 | .42 | Hearing-frequency |
30 | I would be able to smell the difference between freshly cut grass and uncut grass. | .27 | .14 | .49 | -.05 | Smell-neutral |
31a | I wouldn’t be able to feel the label at the back of my shirt even if I thought about it. | .50 | -.29 | .57 | .21 | Touch-pressure |
32a | I can hear electricity humming in the walls. | .43 | -.36 | .57 | .44 | Hearing-frequency |
33a | I notice the flickering of a desktop computer even when it is working properly. | .52 | -.32 | .61 | -.46 | Vision-motion |
34 | I wouldn’t be able to tell if milk is off simply by smelling it. | .22 | .41 | .52 | .38 | Smell-food |
35a | I would be able to notice a tiny change (for example, 1 degree) in the temperature of the weather. | .46 | .09 | .58 | -.32 | Touch-temperature |
36a | I would be able to feel a one millimetre cut in my skin. | .36 | .09 | .44 | -.13 | Touch-pain |
37 | I would be able to see the individual blades in a rotating fan even if it was at maximum speed. | .29 | -.20 | .26 | -.44 | Vision-motion |
38a | I would be able to tell the weight difference between two different coin sizes on the palm of my hand, if my eyes were closed. | .42 | .03 | .62 | -.25 | Touch-pressure |
39 | I wouldn’t get dizzy on a carousel/merry-go-round, even at high speed. | .03 | .07 | -.02 | .24 | Hearing-vestibular |
40 | I can’t see written words on a page that other people can see. | -.12 | .37 | -.14 | .63 | Vision-acuity |
41 | I would be able to distinguish between two oranges purely by their taste. | .48 | .22 | .31 | -.11 | Taste-sour |
42a | I couldn’t distinguish a familiar person and a stranger by their smell. | .41 | .25 | .42 | .11 | Smell-social |
43a | I couldn’t detect if bread is stale purely by its smell. | .38 | .06 | .58 | .16 | Smell-food |
44 | I can’t tell if my clothes are clean or dirty by smell alone. | .30 | .35 | .43 | .48 | Smell-neutral |
45a | I would be able to detect the sound of a vacuum cleaner from any room in a two-storey building. | .44 | .04 | .51 | -.03 | Hearing-frequency |
46 | I wouldn’t notice the difference between even and uneven ground when driving over it sitting in the back seat of a car. | .38 | .31 | .46 | .47 | Touch-vibration |
47 | I would be able to drink a cup of boiling water straight after it had been poured from the kettle. | -.03 | .04 | .16 | .49 | Touch-pain |
48 | I couldn’t tell two types of green apples apart purely from their colour. | .31 | .26 | .49 | .36 | Vision-colour |
49 | I would be able to distinguish between an old and a new book by their smell. | .25 | .18 | .58 | -.06 | Smell-neutral |
50 | I would be able to read a street sign from a distance of 100 feet (30 metres). | -.09 | .29 | .22 | -.01 | Vision-acuity |
51 | I can’t tell if cars passing me on the street are going at different speeds. | .15 | .35 | .25 | .51 | Vision-motion |
52 | I would be able to notice if someone added 5 grains of sugar to my glass of water. | .37 | -.05 | .35 | -.30 | Taste-sweet |
53 | I would have difficulty seeing a single leaf clearly even on a tree that is close up. | .21 | .36 | .34 | .56 | Vision-acuitity |
54 | I wouldn’t taste if someone added a whole teaspoon of salt to my glass of water. | .20 | .37 | .23 | .56 | Taste-salty |
55a | I would be able to feel the elastic holding up my socks if I stop and thought about it. | .57 | -.11 | .57 | -.11 | Touch-pressure |
56 | I can’t taste the difference between ripe and non-ripe fruit. | .21 | .41 | .39 | .56 | Taste-sweet |
57 | I would be able to stand on one foot for fifteen seconds without wobbling. | .15 | -.44 | .22 | -.06 | Hearing-vestibular |
58a | I would be able to taste the difference between apparently identical pieces of candy. | .37 | -.27 | .59 | -.27 | Taste-sweet |
59a | I notice the weight and pressure of a hat on my head. | .49 | -.06 | .61 | -.19 | Touch-pressure |
60a | I would feel if a single hair touched the back of my hand. | .59 | -.08 | .64 | -.20 | Touch-pressure |
61a | If I was walking along, I would be able to feel a passing truck’s vibrations even if my eyes were closed. | .54 | -.00 | .69 | -.07 | Touch-vibration |
62a | I would be able to smell the smallest gas leak from anywhere in the house. | .64 | -.09 | .71 | -.29 | Smell-danger |
63a | I wouldn’t notice if someone changed their perfume, by smell alone. | .43 | .19 | .59 | .23 | Smell-social |
64 | I would be able to tell when an elevator/lift started moving. | .25 | .07 | .53 | .10 | Hearing-vestibular |
65 | I can hear dog whistles very easily in the park. | .32 | -.15 | .50 | -.30 | Hearing-frequency |
66 | I wouldn’t taste the difference between different types of lettuce leaves. | .45 | .27 | .17 | .36 | Taste-bitter |
67 | I couldn’t taste if there were two slices of lemon in my glass of water if I was drinking it with my eyes closed. | .31 | .19 | .48 | .51 | Taste-sour |
68a | I can’t go out in bright sunlight without sunglasses. | .47 | -.26 | .55 | -.35 | Vision-brightness |
69 | I would be able to read small print, such as a serial number on the back of a DVD, at 10 feet (3 metres) away. | -.17 | .02 | .04 | -.38 | Vision-acuity |
70 | I get motion sickness easily (for example, car sickness or sea sickness) | .21 | -.01 | -.01 | -.11 | Vision-motion |
71a | I would be able to feel a change in the temperature of a cup of coffee after it had sat for 1 minute. | .51 | .07 | .56 | -.12 | Touch-temperature |
72 | I can’t hear very low frequency sounds, such as low voices. | .09 | .52 | .44 | .27 | Hearing-frequency |
73a | I would be the first to hear if there was a fly in the room. | .61 | -.08 | .70 | -.27 | Hearing-loudness |
74a | If I look at a pile of blue sweaters in a shop that are meant to be identical, I would be able to see differences between them. | .51 | -.26 | .68 | -.25 | Vision-colour |
75a | I wouldn’t detect a new smell in my house instantly before anyone else. | .55 | .26 | .58 | .19 | Smell-neutral |
76 | I have perfect pitch: for example, I could repeat a musical tone without any cue. | -.42 | .04 | -.21 | .16 | Hearing-complex |
77 | I would be able to bite into a lemon without any problems. | .15 | -.32 | .18 | .25 | Taste-sour |
78 | I wouldn’t need to wear a coat in the winter, even when it is zero degrees outside. | -.01 | -.03 | -.12 | -.52 | Touch-temperature |
79 | I wouldn’t be able to match the colour of a sweater in the shop with the colour of my trousers at home. | .22 | .07 | .14 | .34 | Vision-colour |
80 | I wouldn’t hear every single note when listening to music. | .39 | -.01 | .33 | .21 | Hearing-frequency |
81a | I would be able to smell the difference between most men and women. | .51 | .25 | .59 | -.19 | Smell-social |
82 | I choose to wear muted colours. | .14 | -.33 | .41 | -.31 | Vision-brightness |
83 | I listen to music at minimum loudness. | .15 | -.22 | .31 | -.27 | Hearing-loudness |
84a | I would be able to hear each note in a chord even if there were 10 notes. | .38 | -.13 | .43 | -.25 | Hearing-complexity |
85a | I close curtains to avoid bright lights. | .46 | -.45 | .49 | -.37 | Vision-acuity |
86 | I wouldn’t be able to hear differences in sound if the same instrument played the same note at different times. | .27 | -.12 | .50 | .20 | Hearing-complex |
87a | I would be able to distinguish two brands of coffee by their smell, even with my eyes closed. | .50 | .01 | .66 | -.16 | Smell-food |
88a | I can see dust particles in the air in most environments. | .50 | -.37 | .63 | -.42 | Vision-acuity |
89a | I wouldn’t be able to taste the difference between two brands of tomato sauce if they had different concentrations of salt. | .43 | .26 | .60 | .35 | Taste-salty |
90a | I would be able to smell the smallest amount of burning from anywhere in the house. | .62 | -.10 | .76 | -.20 | Smell-danger |
91a | If my mobile phone was vibrating in my pocket I would be quick to sense it. | .43 | -.01 | .59 | .12 | Touch-vibration |
92 | I find it difficult to see individual stars on a clear night. | .15 | .21 | .43 | .47 | Vision-acuitity |