902 MHz mobile phone does not affect short term memory in humans

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 452-456

  Haarala, Christian ^a   Ek, Maria ^a   Björnberg, Linda ^b,c   Laine, Matti ^a,c   Revonsuo, Antti ^a   Koivisto, Mika ^a   Hämäläinen, Heikki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

^c ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

EMF; Multi centre; Replication; RF; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CELLULAR TELEPHONES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

LOAD CONDITION; MEMORY LOAD; MULTI-CENTER; PERFORMANCE; REPLICATION; RF; SENSITIVITY THRESHOLD; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SHORT-TERM MEMORY TASKS; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION RESPONSE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESPONSE TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SWEDEN; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 4444270416     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bem.20014     Document Type: Article

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