The phrase "affecting tasks" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how certain factors or conditions influence or impact specific tasks or activities.
Example: "The recent changes in policy are affecting tasks related to project management and team collaboration."
Alternatives: "impacting tasks" or "influencing tasks".
McKiernan, K. A., Kaufman, J. N., Kucera-Thompson, J. & Binder, J. R. A parametric manipulation of factors affecting task-induced deactivation in functional neuroimaging.
A large body of research in this area has demonstrated extensively, by manipulating different types of external representations, that external representations play an important role in affecting task performance [6], [7].
A key question is how far improvement in auditory functioning through childhood is a reflection of non-auditory factors affecting task performance, or whether it is indicative of physiological changes in underlying brain systems.
Nevertheless, it has been suggested that at least part of the improvement in auditory discrimination with age could be due to developing use of top-down skills affecting task performance [2],[5].
A striking demonstration of between-task competition affecting task choice comes from studies of voluntary switching between tasks differing in their relative strength (Liefooghe et al. 2009; Yeung 2010).
Automation affects tasks in one of three ways: substituting, augmenting or creating human work.
Moreover, the magnitude of the perceptive and productive deficits was revealed to be linked for the chunking, focus and affect tasks in the HFA group.
The results of this study confirmed the positive influence of treatment with risperidone on the performance of facial affect tasks.
The affect task assesses the ability to decode the affective state of the speaker as produced using variation in intonation and voice and to produce such an affective state.
Mask use did not affect task performance.
