No effects of mobile phone use on cortical auditory change-detection in children: An ERP study

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 191-199

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^e AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic field (EMF); Event related potential (ERP); Mismatch negativity (MMN)

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

AUDITORY EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS; CHANGE DETECTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EVENT RELATED POTENTIALS; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIAL; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; MOBILE PHONE USE; MULTIFEATURES; PEAK VALUES;

CELLULAR TELEPHONES;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN; CHILD; EAR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; MOBILE PHONE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TEMPORAL BONE; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; CELLULAR PHONE; CHILD; EAR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TEMPORAL BONE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77952048267     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: 1521186X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bem.20546     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. Alho K. 1995. Cerebral generators of mismatch negativity (MMN) and its magnetic counterpart (MMNm) elicited by sound changes. Ear Hear 16:38-51.
2. Arai N, Enomoto H, Okabe S, Yuasa K, Kamimura Y, Ugawa Y. 2003. Thirty minutes mobile phone use has no short-term adverse effects on central auditory pathways. Clin Neurophysiol 114:1390-1394.
3. Berger H. 1929. Electroencephalogram in humans. Arch Psychiatr Nervenkr 87:527-570.
4. Bernardi P, Cavagnaro M, Pisa S, Piuzzi E. 2000. Specific absorption rate and temperature increases in the head of a cellular-phone user. IEEE Trans Microw Theory Tech 48:1118-1126.
5. Bernardi P, Cavagnaro M, Pisa S, Piuzzi E. 2001. Power absorption and temperature elevations induced in the human head by a dual-band monopole-helix antenna phone. IEEE Trans Microw Theory Tech 49:2539-2546. (Pubitemid 34055424)
6. Böhler E, Schüz J. 2004. Cellular telephone use among primary school children in Germany. Eur J Epidemiol 19:1043-1050.
7. Čeponiene R, Rinne T, Näätänen R. 2002. Maturation of cortical sound processing as indexed by event-related potentials. Clin Neurophysiol 113:870-882.
8. Chen H-Y, Yang H-P. 2006. Temperature increase in human heads due to different models of cellular phones. Electromagnetics 26:439-459.
9. Cheour M, Leppänen PHT, Kraus N. 2000. Mismatch negativity (MMN) as a tool for investigating auditory discrimination and sensory memory in infants and children. Clin Neurophysiol 111:4-16.
10. Christ A, Kuster N. 2005. Differences in RF energy absorption in the heads of adults and children. Bioelectromagnetics 26 (Suppl. 7) : S31-S44.
11. Cohen J. 1988. Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences. 2nd edition. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
12. Cook CM, Thomas AW, Prato FS. 2002. Human electrophysiological and cognitive effects of exposure to ELF magnetic and ELF modulated RF and microwave fields: A review of recent studies. Bioelectromagnetics 23:144-157.
13. Cowan N. 1984. On short and long auditory stores. Psychol Bull 96:341-370.
14. Dimbylow PJ, Mann SM. 1994. SAR calculations in an anatomically realistic model of the head for mobile communication transceivers at 900 MHz and 1.8 GHz. Phys Med Biol 39:1537-1553.
15. Dimbylow PJ, Mann SM. 1999. Characterisation of energy deposition in the head from cellular phones. Radiat Prot Dosimetry 83:139-141.
16. Escera C, Alho K, Winkler I, Näätänen R. 1998. Neural mechanisms of involuntary attention to acoustic novelty and change. J Cogn Neurosci 10:590-604.
17. Escera C, Alho K, Schröger E, Winkler I. 2000. Involuntary attention and distractibility as evaluated with event-related brain potentials. Audiol Neurootol 5:151-166.
18. Escera C, Yago E, Alho K. 2001. Electrical responses reveal the temporal dynamics of brain events during involuntary attention switching. Eur J Neurosci 14:877-883.
19. *Power 3: A flexible statistical power analysis program for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences. Behav Res Methods 39:175-191.
20. Fisher DJ, Labelle A, Knott VJ. 2008. The right profile: Mismatch negativity in schizophrenia with and without auditory hallucinations as measured by a multi-feature paradigm. Clin Neurophysiol 119:909-921.
21. Freude G, Ullsperger P, Eggert S, Ruppe I. 1998. Effects of microwaves emitted by cellular phones on human slow brain potentials. Bioelectromagnetics 19:384-387.
22. Gandhi OP, Li Q-X, Kang G. 2001. Temperature rise for the human head for cellular telephones and for peak SARs prescribed in safety guidelines. IEEE Trans Microw Theory Tech 49:1607-1613. (Pubitemid 32933111)
23. Geisser S, Greenhouse SW. 1958. An extension of Box's results on the use of the F distribution in multivariate analysis. Ann Math Stat 29:885-891.
24. Greenhouse SW, Geisser S. 1959. On methods in the analysis of profile data. Psychometrika 24:95-112.
25. Haarala C, Bergman M, Laine M, Revonsuo A, Koivisto M, Hämäläinen H. 2005. Electromagnetic field emitted by 902MHz mobile phones shows no effects on children's cognitive function. Bioelectromagnetics 26 (Suppl. 7) : S144-S150.
26. Hamblin DL, Wood AW, Croft RJ, Stough C. 2004. Examining the effects of electromagnetic fields emitted by GSM mobile phones on human event-related potentials and performance during an auditory task. Clin Neurophysiol 115:171-178.
27. Hamblin DL, Wood AW, Croft RJ, Stough C, Spong J. 2006. The sensitivity of human event-related potentials and reaction time to mobile phone emitted electromagnetic fields. Bioelectromagnetics 27:265-273.
28. IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission). 2005. Human exposure to radio frequency fields from hand-held and bodymounted wireless communication devices-Human models, instrumentation, and procedures. Part 1. Procedure to determine the specific absorption rate (SAR) for hand-held devices used in close proximity to the ear (frequency range of 300 MHz to 3 GHz). International standard IEC 62209-1 (2005-02). Geneva, Switzerland.
29. Jasper HH. 1958. The ten twenty electrode system of the International Federation. Appendix to the report of the committee on methods of clinical examination in electroencephalography. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 10:371-375.
30. Krause CM, Sillanmäki L, Koivisto M, Häggqvist A, Saarela C, Revonsuo A, Laine M, Hämäläinen H. 2000a. Effects of electromagnetic field emitted by cellular phones on the EEG during a memory task. Neuroreport 11:761-764. (Pubitemid 30173919)
31. Krause CM, Sillanmäki L, Koivisto M, Häggqvist A, Saarela C, Revonsuo A, Laine M, Hämäläinen H. 2000b. Effects of electromagnetic fields emitted by cellular phones on the electroencephalogram during a visual working memory task. Int J Radiat Biol 76:1659-1667.
32. Krause CM, Haarala C, Sillanmaki L, Koivisto M, Alanko K, Revonsuo A, Laine M, Hämäläinen H. 2004. Effects of electromagnetic field emitted by cellular phones on the EEG during an auditory memory task: A double blind replication study. Bioelectromagnetics 25:33-40.
33. Krause CM, Björnberg CH, Pesonen M, Hulten A, Liesivuori T, Koivisto M, Revonsuo A, Laine M, Hämäläinen H. 2006. Mobile phone effects on children's event-related oscillatory EEG during an auditory memory task. Int J Radiat Biol 82:443-450.
34. Krause CM, Pesonen M, Björnberg CH, Hämäläinen H. 2007. Effects of pulsed and continuous wave 902 MHz mobile phone exposure on brain oscillatory activity during cognitive processing. Bioelectromagnetics 28:296-308.
35. Kujala T, Lovio R, Lepistö T, Laasonen M, Näätänen R. 2006. Evaluation of multi-attribute auditory discrimination profile in dyslexia with the mismatch negativity. Clin Neurophysiol 117:885-893.
36. Kujala T, Aho E, Lepistö T, Jansson-Verkasalo E, Nieminen-von Wendt T, von Wendt L, Näätänen R. 2007. Atypical pattern of discriminating sound features in adults with Asperger syndrome as reflected by the mismatch negativity. Biol Psychol 75:109-114.
37. Kwon MS, Kujala T, Huotilainen M, Shestakova A, Näätänen R, Hämäläinen H. 2009. Preattentive auditory information processing under exposure to the 902 MHz GSM mobile phone electromagnetic field: A mismatch negativity (MMN) study. Bioelectromagnetics 30:241-248.
38. Madell D, Muncer S. 2004. Back from the beach but hanging on the telephone? English adolescents' attitudes and experiences of mobile phones and the Internet. Cyberpsychol Behav 7:359-367.
39. Mezei G, Benyi M, Muller A. 2007. Mobile phone ownership and use among school children in three Hungarian cities. Bioelectromagnetics 28:309-315.
40. Näätänen R. 1990. The role of attention in auditory information processing as revealed by event-related potentials and other brain measures of cognitive function. Behav Brain Sci 13:201-288.
41. Näätänen R. 2003. Mismatch negativity: Clinical research and possible applications. Int J Psychophysiol 48:179-188.
42. Näätänen R, Winkler I. 1999. The concept of auditory stimulus representation in cognitive neuroscience. Psychol Bull 125:826-859.
43. Näätänen R, Gaillard AW, Mäntysalo S. 1978. Early selectiveattention effect on evoked potential reinterpreted. Acta Psychol 42:313-329.
44. Näätänen R, Simpson M, Loveless NE. 1982. Stimulus deviance and evoked potentials. Biol Psychol 14:53-98.
45. Näätänen R, Pakarinen S, Rinne T, Takegata R. 2004. The mismatch negativity (MMN) : Towards the optimal paradigm. Clin Neurophysiol 115:140-144.
46. Pakarinen S, Takegata R, Rinne T, Huotilainen M, Näätänen R. 2007. Fast measurement of extensive auditory discrimination profiles using mismatch negativity. Clin Neurophysiol 118:177-185.
47. Preece AW, Goodfellow S, Wright MG, Butler SR, Dunn EJ, Johnson Y, Manktelow TC, Wesnes K. 2005. Effects of 902 MHz mobile phone transmission on cognitive function in children. Bioelectromagnetics 26 (Suppl. 7) : S138-S143.
48. Samaras T, Kalampaliki E, Sahalos JN. 2007. Influence of thermophysiological parameters on the calculations of temperature rise in the head of mobile phone users. IEEE Trans Electromagn Compat 49:936-939.
49. Schmid G, Überbacher R, Samaras T, Jappel A, Baumgartner W-D, Tschabitscher M, Mazal PR. 2007. High-resolution numerical model of the middle and inner ear for a detailed analysis of radio frequency absorption. Phys Med Biol 52:1771-1781.
50. Schüz J. 2005. Mobile phone use and exposures in children. Bioelectromagnetics 26 (Suppl. 7) : S45-S50.
51. Söderqvist F, Hardell L, Carlberg M, Hansson K. 2007. Ownership and use of wireless telephones: A population-based study of Swedish children aged 7-14 years. BMC Public Health 7:105.
52. Teinonen T 2005. SequenceMaker-A shareware toolbox for generating stimulus sequences. Available at: http://www.cbru.helsinki.fi/seqma/
53. Toivonen T, Toivo T, Pitkaaho R, Puranen L, Silfverhuth M, Mennander A, Hannula M, Hyttinen J, Jokela K. 2008. Setup and dosimetry for exposing anaesthetised pigs in vivo to 900MHz GSM mobile phone fields. Bioelectromagnetics 29:363-370.
54. van Leeuwen GMJ, Lagendijk JJW, van Leersum BJAM, Zwamborn APM, Hornsleth SN, Kotte ANTJ. 1999. Calculation of change in brain temperatures due to exposure to a mobile phone. Phys Med Biol 44:2367-2379.
55. Wainwright P. 2000. Thermal effects of radiation from cellular telephones. Phys Med Biol 45:2363-2372.
56. Wang J, Fujiwara O. 1999. FDTD computation of temperature rise in the human head for portable telephones. IEEE Trans Microw Theory Tech 47:1528-1534.
57. Wood AW, Hamblin DL, Croft RJ. 2003. The use of a 'phantom scalp' to assess the possible direct pickup of mobile phone handset emissions by electroencephalogram electrode leads. Med Biol Eng Comput 41:470-472.