'affective representation' is a valid phrase that can be used in written English.
It is most often used in the context of psychology or philosophy to describe how people internalize or interpret their emotions. For example: "This study provides evidence for the affective representation of sounds, which suggests that our perceptions of the world are heavily influenced by our emotional states."
This analysis was non-significant (r = .09, p = .27, Figure 4) suggesting that participants' ability to recollect prosody does not predict whether and how prosody affects their affective representation of words in semantic memory.
However, subsequent valence ratings indicated that study prosody changed the affective representation of words in memory.
Together with the results from Experiment 1, this suggests that prosodic context modulates a word's affective representation in semantic memory.
To conclude, the present study found speaker prosody to be irrelevant for subsequent word recognition but important for shaping a word's affective representation in memory.
The influence of study prosody on a word's affective representation in semantic memory was assessed by subjecting the valence ratings of correctly recognized old words to an ANOVA with Prosody as a repeated measures factor and Sex as a between subjects factor.
Of interest, the ACC region has been shown to be involved in the affective representation, including the pleasantness of a stimulus (Rainville et al. 1997).
Rather than co-opting pain circuitry, rejection involves distinct affective representations in humans.
The only indicator of increased affective representations is the cluster in subcallosal ACC.
There is an ongoing debate about whether perceiving and understanding the pain of others is mediated by somatosensory or by affective representations.
A parsimonious explanation, based on prior functional attributions to the pSTS, is that the interpretive detection of care issues involves the biasing of FP processes of self-projection, while inhibiting the affective representations of the rACC, by the pSTS-related processes of social perspective-taking and social emotions such as altruism [39] or empathy [40], [41].
Over the course of development the internal sensorimotor, memory and affective representations of words become strongly associated over time and due to extensive experience with language.
