The phrase "shifted downwards" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
Example: The price of the stock market suddenly dropped, causing investors to panic as their profits were shifted downwards.
In the incongruent condition when pitch chroma shifted downwards but pitch height shifted upwards, listeners perceived a downward pitch shift.
Afterall everyone would just follow the lead of US hence the "graph" would have shifted downwards instead of any change in the "formula".
Specifically, in the incongruent condition when pitch chroma shifted upwards but pitch height shifted downwards, listeners perceived an upward pitch shift.
To direct subjects' attention to pitch height, we instructed subjects to judge whether pitch was shifted downwards or upwards, instead of whether the timbre was duller or brighter.
In upper slope positions, soil properties were shifted downwards by 15 20 cm in rehabilitated plots (where soil was applied, original soil was buried).
As a result, to use economists' jargon, the "factor content" of American imports—in effect, the amount of skilled labour they contain has not shifted downwards.
When the whole bundle shifts downwards with respect to the outer (pressure) tube, flow redistribution happens.
The price and the way markets evaluate cryptocurrency keeps on shifting downwards.
While in the Global North the population is ageing, globally the demographics are shifting downwards.
For y j n > 0, the price schedule would shift downwards.
It can be seen that this line shifts downwards as the HACHP load is increased.
