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Effects of concurrent caffeine and mobile phone exposure on local target probability processing in the human brain
Trunk A, Stefanics G, Zentai N, Bacskay I, Felinger A, Thuróczy G, Hernádi I · 2015
View Original AbstractUMTS mobile phone radiation at typical exposure levels showed no immediate effects on brain activity or reaction times during a 15-minute cognitive task.
Plain English Summary
Researchers exposed 25 people to UMTS mobile phone radiation (similar to 3G signals) for 15 minutes while they performed visual tasks, with some participants also given caffeine. While caffeine improved reaction times and brain arousal as expected, the mobile phone radiation had no detectable effects on brain activity or cognitive performance, either alone or when combined with caffeine.
Study Details
Here we investigated whether caffeine intake and concurrent exposure to Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) MP-like irradiation may interactively influence neuro-cognitive function in an active visual oddball paradigm.
In a full factorial experimental design, 25 participants performed a simple visual target detection ...
We found that RT was shorter in High vs. Low local probability trials and caffeine further shortened...
However, in the present pharmacologically validated study UMTS exposure either alone or in combination with caffeine did not alter RT or pre-stimulus oscillatory brain activity.
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@article{a_2015_effects_of_concurrent_caffeine_2816,
author = {Trunk A and Stefanics G and Zentai N and Bacskay I and Felinger A and Thuróczy G and Hernádi I},
title = {Effects of concurrent caffeine and mobile phone exposure on local target probability processing in the human brain},
year = {2015},
url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/srep14434},
}