The Affective Neuroscience Approach to Emotions

The study of new emotions neuroscientifically is usually labeled affective neuroscience affect. Scientists have this term called affect, which is basically we have described in the experience of having an emotion. Something is happening when we experience an emotion. An affect is the label we attached to that something. There's some people argue for a while for a very long time and still in many cases, it's believed that there are basic emotions like the fundamental emotional keys on a piano. So with that said then, how do we actually go about studying emotions?