The phrase "affective neutral" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to psychology, emotions, or discussions about emotional responses where neutrality is emphasized.
Example: "The therapist noted that the patient's affective neutral state indicated a lack of emotional engagement with the situation."
Alternatives: "emotionally neutral" or "affectively indifferent".
Increased response time and activity in the frontal-parietal regions appear robust during deception, regardless of whether affective or affectively neutral stimuli are used.
In other words, deception involving affective stimuli requires the collaboration of more brain regions than deception involving affectively neutral stimuli.
The inherently evaluative concept of VERMIN captures the affective value behind Striking tigers and flies together, and is preferable to the affectively neutral domain of ANIMAL as the larger source domain in which tigers and flies are a part.
However, these studies did not contain an affectively neutral baseline, which precluded adequate assessment of main effects of reward, punishment, and affective switching.
Although affect reduction limits our ability to interpret the results as affectively neutral, it does allow us to identify that violation of subjective reward expectations did not lead to increases in FN amplitudes in the absence of positive affective responses.
We investigated whether lying about the valence of affective stimuli involves activity in the frontal, cingulate, and parietal regions, as has been observed in deception studies using affectively neutral stimuli.
Comparable research using images, facial expressions, or words with affective or neutral connotations revealed relatively robust effects of emotion on memory [32] [35].
Event-related-magnetic-fields were recorded during rapid visual serial presentation of emotionally arousing stimuli (unpleasant or pleasant), which alternated with pictures with low affective content (neutral).
In our previous task-fMRI study, we found that migraineurs exhibited hyperactivation in the anterior cerebellum lobe/culmen and visual cortex while viewing negative minus neutral affective pictures compared with healthy controls, and we proposed that migraine patients may have hypersensitivities to negative affective stimuli or that there is less inhibition in the cerebellum of migraineurs [23].
With respect to FT dyads, ELGA dyads were characterised by less frequent symmetric and more frequent unilateral co-regulation patterns and by less positive and more neutral affective intensity of both infants and mothers.
