The phrase "affects thinking" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how something influences or changes the way people think or process information.
Example: "The new research suggests that social media usage significantly affects thinking patterns among teenagers."
Alternatives: "influences cognition" or "shapes thought processes."
No one knows whether the disease affects thinking, mood or personality before memory fails.
For some time, researchers have known that exercise changes the structure of the brain and affects thinking.
If you're talking about a disorder that affects thinking, behavior, that's different from high blood pressure or diabetes.
"It looks more and more like the positive stress of exercise prepares cells and structures and pathways within the brain so that they're more equipped to handle stress in other forms," says Michael Hopkins, a graduate student affiliated with the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory Laboratory at Dartmouth, who has been studying how exercise differently affects thinking and emotion.
Excessive stress on the job also has psychological costs; in the long term, it may lead to anxiety and depression, and on a day-to-day basis, it negatively affects thinking, emotions, and judgment, impairing an individual's ability to work at his or her personal best.
Derek Chollet, senior director for strategic planning at the National Security Council, says Robert Kaplan's "Monsoon" affected thinking across the Obama administration.
Recent decisions by the European Court of Justice – notably Case C-135/08 Rottman and Case C‑34/09 Ruiz Zambrano – have affected thinking about when and how that citizenship can be acquired or lost.
While it was too early to tell whether the storm would affect Thinking Caps' bottom line, Ms. Mayzler said it was unprecedented for the company to have a week with so few lessons, especially during this time of year.
Evolutionary biology, which aims to explain the dynamic process of shaping the diversity of life, has not yet significantly affected thinking in social epidemiology.
In the United States, for example, both major parties continually appeal to the heroes of their past, who affect thinking even today and who can be regarded as helping to define the parties' "identities".
Studies have also shown that loneliness can make a person less productive and can affect thinking as well.
