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Psychomotor performance is not influenced by brief repeated exposures to mobile phones
Author(s) -
Curcio G.,
Valentini E.,
Moroni F.,
Ferrara M.,
De Gennaro L.,
Bertini M.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
bioelectromagnetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.435
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1521-186X
pISSN - 0197-8462
DOI - 10.1002/bem.20393
Subject(s) - psychomotor learning , hum , bioelectromagnetics , audiology , finger tapping , task (project management) , mobile phone , gsm , phone , psychology , cognition , computer science , medicine , telecommunications , engineering , neuroscience , art , linguistics , philosophy , physics , systems engineering , quantum mechanics , performance art , magnetic field , art history
The present study investigated the presence of a cumulative effect of brief and repeated exposures to a GSM mobile phone (902.40 MHz, 217 Hz modulated; peak power of 2 W; average power of 0.25 W; SAR = 0.5 W/kg) on psychomotor functions. To this end, after each of 3 15‐min exposures, both an acoustic simple reaction time task (SRTT) and a sequential finger tapping task (SFTT) were administered to 24 subjects. The present study was unable to detect the cumulative effects of brief and repeated EMF exposure on human psychomotor performance, although there was a non‐statistical trend to shorter reaction times. In summary, these data show an absence of effects with these particular exposure conditions; however, possible cognitive effects induced by different signal characteristics cannot be excluded. Bioelectromagnetics 29:237–241, 2008. © 2007 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.