Mobile phone effects on children's event-related oscillatory EEG during an auditory memory task

International Journal of Radiation Biology

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 443-450

  Krause, Christina ^a,b   Björnberg, Christian ^b   Pesonen, Mirka ^a   Hulten, Annika ^b,c   Liesivuori, Tiia ^b   Koivisto, Mika ^b   Revonsuo, Antti ^b   Laine, Matti ^b,c   Hämäläinen, Heikki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Children; EEG; EMF; ERD ERS; GSM; Memory; Mobile phone

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MOBILE PHONE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; CELLULAR PHONE; COGNITION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HUMANS; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS;

EID: 33746108556     PISSN: 09553002     EISSN: 13623095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09553000600840922     Document Type: Article

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