Effect on human attention of exposure to the electromagnetic field emitted by mobile phones

Tatia M.C. Lee; Sam M.Y. Ho; Lucia Y.H. Tsang; Serena Y.C. Yang; Leonard S.W. Li; Che Hin Chan

doi:10.1097/00001756-200103260-00023

Effect on human attention of exposure to the electromagnetic field emitted by mobile phones

Tatia M.C. Lee, Sam M.Y. Ho, Lucia Y.H. Tsang, Serena Y.C. Yang, Leonard S.W. Li, Che Hin Chan

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Abstract

This study examined the effect of exposure to the electromagnetic field emitted by mobile phones on human attention. Three measures of attention were administered to 72 teenagers, 37 of whom were mobile phone users. The results showed that the mobile phone users performed better on one of the three measures of attention than did the non-mobile phone users. The results suggest that exposure to the electromagnetic field emitted by mobile phones may have a mild facilitating effect on attention functions, which is consistent with previous observations that exposure to the electromagnetic field has a facilitating effect on cognitive processing. The possibility that mobile phone users may be naturally better at multiple tasking tasks was discussed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	729-731
Number of pages	3
Journal	NeuroReport
Volume	12
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1097/00001756-200103260-00023
Publication status	Published - 26 Mar 2001

Keywords

Attention
Cognitive processing
Electromagnetic field
Mobile phone

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General Neuroscience

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