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Lack of interaction between concurrent caffeine and mobile phone exposure on visual target detection: An ERP study.
Trunk A, Stefanics G, Zentai N, Bacskay I, Felinger A, Thuróczy G, Hernádi I · 2014
View Original AbstractFifteen minutes of 3G phone radiation at near-regulatory limits showed no detectable effects on brain activity or visual processing.
Plain English Summary
Hungarian researchers studied whether mobile phone radiation affects brain activity during visual tasks, and whether caffeine changes this effect. They exposed 20 people to 3G phone signals at 1.75 watts per kilogram while measuring brain waves during a simple visual test. The mobile phone exposure had no detectable impact on brain activity or reaction times, either alone or combined with caffeine.
Study Details
Here we investigated behavioral and neural correlates of caffeine and simultaneous MP exposure in a third generation (3G) Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) signal modulation scheme.
We recorded electroencephalography (EEG) and event related potentials (ERP) in an oddball paradigm t...
Caffeine significantly shortened RT and decreased AUC of the P300 component compared to the control ...
Overall, the present results did not demonstrate any interactive or synergistic effects of caffeine and UMTS MP like EMF exposure on basic neural or cognitive measures. However, we found that caffeine consistently enhanced behavioral and ERP measures of visual target detection, showing that present results were obtained using a pharmacologically validated, consistent and replicable methodology.
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@article{a_2014_lack_of_interaction_between_2815,
author = {Trunk A and Stefanics G and Zentai N and Bacskay I and Felinger A and Thuróczy G and Hernádi I},
title = {Lack of interaction between concurrent caffeine and mobile phone exposure on visual target detection: An ERP study.},
year = {2014},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0091305714002159},
}