Does acute exposure to mobile phones affect human attention?

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 215-220

  Russo, Riccardo ^a   Fox, Elaine ^a   Cinel, Caterina ^a   Boldini, Angela ^a   Defeyter, Margaret A ^a   Mirshekar Syahkal, Dariush ^a   Mehta, Amit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavioral effects; Cognitive tests; GSM; RF

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS;

BEHAVIORAL EFFECTS; COGNITIVE TESTS; EXPOSED TO; HUMAN ATTENTION; HUMAN COGNITION; METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS; RADIO-FREQUENCY EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCIES; RADIOFREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; SMALL SAMPLES;

CELLULAR TELEPHONES;

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 33645733729     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: 1521186X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bem.20193     Document Type: Article

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