The phrase "affective function" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to psychology, linguistics, or communication, where emotions and feelings are being discussed.
Example: "The affective function of language plays a crucial role in how we express our emotions and connect with others."
Alternatives: "emotional function" or "feeling function".
The cross-sectional design limits conclusions about causality, and it should be noted that peripheral cytokines can feedback to the central nervous system to influence cognitive and affective function (Dantzer et al., 2008), so that IL-6 could potentially affect optimistic mood.
Nor will passions necessarily be aroused if overstatement of feeling ("sentimentality") is used without a due balance of thinking and even the detachment of laughter: Shakespeare and Anton Chekhov are two outstanding examples in Western drama of writers who achieved an exquisite balance of pathos with comedy in order to ensure the affective function of their plays.
Baseline oxytocin levels and stimulated OT-responses might have different effects on affective function, which should be considered in future substitution paradigms.
During recent years, the Iowa gambling task (IGT) has been become a critical task in research on affective function and decision-making under uncertainty.
These parental supports, which the orphan child may lack, fulfill the affective function of the family to its members [ 6, 7].
According to Mencius, the sprout (duan; also meaning "beginning") of ren is a spontaneous feeling of compassion and commiseration within the human heart-and-mind (xin), the locus of both cognitive and affective functions.
Nevertheless, their links to non-clinical variations in affective functioning are still poorly understood.
In both age groups, gender differences were noted in neural mechanisms in regions involved in sensory, motor, and affective functions, between male and female migraineurs [4, 6].
The vmPFC, on the other hand, has generally been associated with emotional or affective functions such as emotional decision-making, judgments, socially appropriate behavior and impulsivity (Berlin et al. 2004; Clark et al. 2008).
As personal comment, it may be that this subgroup consists of those very severe TBI, with prolonged disturbances of consciousness, longest PTA, late recovery of cognitive and affective functions and therefore later complaining of PTH.
The development of Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) involves a large number of challenges such as the modeling of cognitive and affective functions in order to achieve realism and believability in this type of intelligent agents.
