Preattentive auditory information processing under exposure to the 902 MHz GSM mobile phone electromagnetic field: A mismatch negativity (MMN) study

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 241-248

  Kwon, Myoung Soo ^a   Kujala, Teija ^a,b   Huotilainen, Minna ^b   Shestakova, Anna ^b   Näätänen, Risto ^b,c,d   Hämäläinen, Heikki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

EMF; Event related potential (ERP); Multifeature paradigm

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS;

AUDITORY INFORMATION PROCESSING; ELECTROMAGNETIC FELD; ELECTROMAGNETICS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIALS; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIAL; GSM MOBILES; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; MULTIFEATURE PARADIGM; MULTIFEATURES; PRE-ATTENTIVE;

CELLULAR TELEPHONES;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; MOBILE PHONE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 65249122550     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: 1521186X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bem.20470     Document Type: Article

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