Effects of thirty-minute mobile phone exposure on saccades

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 118, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1545-1556

  Terao, Yasuo ^a   Okano, Tomoko ^b   Furubayashi, Toshiaki ^a   Yugeta, Akihiro ^a   Inomata Terada, Satomi ^a   Ugawa, Yoshikazu ^a  

^a University of Tokyo   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attention; High frequency electromagnetic field; Mobile phone; Saccade; Safety

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MOBILE PHONE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RATING SCALE; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; CELLULAR PHONE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SACCADES;

EID: 34249735812     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2007.03.014     Document Type: Article

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