Effects of thirty-minute mobile phone use on visuo-motor reaction time

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 117, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2504-2511

  Terao, Yasuo ^a   Okano, Tomoko ^b   Furubayashi, Toshiaki ^a   Ugawa, Yoshikazu ^a  

^a University of Tokyo   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

High frequency electro magnetic field; Mobile phone; Motor preparation; Movement time; Reaction time; Safety

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; CELLULAR PHONE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; CUES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 33749585290     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2006.07.318     Document Type: Article

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