title: The effects of electromagnetic field emitted by GSM phones on working memory.
abstract: The influence of pulsed radiofrequency (RF) electromagnetic fields of digital GSM mobile phones on working memory in healthy subjects were studied. Memory load was varied from 0 to 3 items in an n-back task. Each subject was tested twice within a single session, with and without the RF exposure (902MHz, 217Hz). The RF field speeded up response times when the memory load was three items but no effects of RF were observed with lower loads. The results suggest that RF fields have a measurable effect on human cognitive performance and encourage further studies on the interactions of RF fields with brain function.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience and Department of Psychology, University of Turku, Finland.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Koivisto
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Krause
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Revonsuo
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Laine
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hämäläinen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D004574:Electromagnetic Fields; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory / Q000528:radiation effects*; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000528:radiation effects; D013689:Telephone