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Table 2 Categories and subcategories of the sensory perception quotient (SPQ)

From: The Sensory Perception Quotient (SPQ): development and validation of a new sensory questionnaire for adults with and without autism

Main categories

Touch

Hearing

Vision

Smell

Taste

(20)a

(20)

(20)

(16)

(16)

Subcategories

Pressure (5)

Amplitude (5)

Acuity (5)

Social (4)

Salty (4)

Temperature (5)

Frequency (5)

Brightness (5)

Danger (4)

Sweet (4)

Pain (5)

Vestibular (5)

Colour (5)

Food (4)

Sour (4)

Vibration (5)

Complexity (5)

Motion (5)

Neutral (4)

Bitter (4)

  1. aIn brackets is the number of items per category.