The phrase "affect the representation of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing how one thing influences or changes the way something else is depicted or portrayed.
Example: "The new data may affect the representation of the study's findings in the final report."
Alternatives: "influence the depiction of" or "impact the portrayal of".
How do different media, printed verses web publishing, affect the representation of work?
We investigate first how these wiring abnormalities affect the representation of episodic information at the network level.
We found that one stimulus feature (frequency) can strongly affect the representation of another feature (direction) even in highly simplified models, a phenomenon caused by generic properties of neuronal integration.
A simplified bounded accumulation model of perceptual decision-making best explains the data if expected reward is allowed to affect the representation of sensory evidence.
However, several arbitrary cut offs used here can affect the representation of each category and this data should be considered as indicative at best.
Our findings demonstrate that increased demands on central target processing affect the representation of the surrounding visual field in early visual cortex.
It's useful if I'm very careful about how women are represented, in an art form where the unconscious gender biases can affect the representations of women on stages — which can be very off-putting for women in the audience, particularly younger women.
We analysed how the Swiss National Forest Inventory partitions the continuous landscape resources into discrete forest/non-forest classes of the Swiss Jura mountain range and how such a binary classification affects the representation of forest resources in space.
The aromatic model determines which ring systems are identified as aromatic and thus affects the representation of the corresponding atoms in the SMILES string.
To understand how contemporary soldiers are writing about war or how the contemporary media environment affects the representation of war, for example, it's necessary to understand something about how soldiers and civilians in the past made meaning out of their wartime experiences.
