The phrase "affect attention" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how something influences or impacts someone's focus or awareness.
Example: "The bright colors of the advertisement are designed to affect attention and draw in potential customers."
Alternatives: "capture attention" or "influence focus".
Blood sugar drops can significantly affect attention.
All three manage to be skeptical without pandering to technophobia or neuroscience — the two dominant frameworks for discussing how digital technologies affect attention and distraction.
There are also events taking place within the body that affect attention, just as there are representations of past events stored in one's memory but accessible to awareness under appropriate circumstances.
How does doing two things at a time affect attention?
A deficit of transporters can affect attention span and impulsiveness by leading to increased levels of norepinephrine.
Previous research has provided evidence that interim testing between the original event and post-event synopsis may affect attention and encoding processes employed when processing the narrative.
This is one possible mechanism whereby PCBs may affect attention-related behaviors, since decreases in cellular dopamine have been correlated with attention disorders such as ADHD (Faraone and Biederman 1998).
While the Pew research explored how technology has affected attention span, it also looked at how the Internet has changed student research habits.
The findings suggest that gum chewing differentially affects attention performance.
The persistent juggling of insufficient resources affects attention, cognitive resources, and ensuing decisions.
Very few scientists were studying how mindfulness training affects attention at the neural level, as she now wanted to.
