The phrase "affects perception" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how something influences or changes the way people see or understand something.
Example: "The lighting in the room significantly affects perception, making the space feel either larger or more confined."
Alternatives: "influences perception" or "shapes perception".
She was certified to screen for Irlen syndrome, which affects perception of written materials.
That obviously affects perception of sensory deprivation, confinement and, ultimately, isolation.
The researchers suggest that the magician's level of expertise may be a key factor in how gaze direction affects perception of the coin toss illusion.
They plan to call Lynn Cooper, a Columbia University psychologist who specializes in perception, to testify on how light affects perception, and on how the context the officers were operating in -- expecting to see guns -- could affect their perception as well.
At a Guggenheim Museum Works & Process talk last month Ms. Tipton showed how lighting affects perception to great effect, demonstrating the way a front-lighted body looks flat and one-dimensional, a backlighted body offers a sculptural shape in space and a side light shows a fully dimensional figure.
Furthermore, Kreiman et al. showed that modulation extent affects perception more than modulation rate [13].
This necessarily affects perceptions of excellence at school level.
The scenic beauty of timber harvests affects perceptions of the social acceptability of forest management.
It has been shown that the flow of cooperatively created knowledge between platforms affects perceptions of learning outcomes.
We conducted four studies that demonstrated that the appearance of changes in size also affects perceptions of status.
However, in the present study, we demonstrate that gender significantly affects perceptions of hand washing effectiveness.
