Note: This study found no significant biological effects under its experimental conditions. We include all studies for scientific completeness.
Effects of exposure to electromagnetic fields emitted by GSM 900 and WCDMA mobile phones on cognitive function in young male subjects
Sauter C, Dorn H, Bahr A, Hansen ML, Peter A, Bajbouj M, Danker-Hopfe H · 2011
View Original AbstractExtended mobile phone radiation exposure showed no cognitive effects in healthy men, suggesting typical phone use doesn't impair mental performance.
Plain English Summary
German researchers exposed 30 young men to mobile phone radiation (900 MHz and 1,966 MHz) for over 7 hours daily for three days, then tested their cognitive abilities including attention, memory, and vigilance. After accounting for natural daily variations in mental performance, they found no significant effects from either type of phone radiation on any cognitive function tested.
Study Details
Results of studies on the possible effects of electromagnetic fields emitted by mobile phones on cognitive functions are contradictory, therefore, possible effects of long‐term (7 h 15 min) electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure to handset‐like signals of Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) 900 and Wideband Code‐Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) on attention and working memory were studied.
The sample comprised 30 healthy male subjects (mean ± SD: 25.3 ± 2.6 years), who were tested on nine...
Time‐of‐day effects were evident for the tests on divided and selective attention, as well as for wo...
The results of the present study do not provide any evidence of an EMF effect on human cognition, but they underline the necessity to control for time of day.
Show BibTeX
@article{c_2011_effects_of_exposure_to_2804,
author = {Sauter C and Dorn H and Bahr A and Hansen ML and Peter A and Bajbouj M and Danker-Hopfe H},
title = {Effects of exposure to electromagnetic fields emitted by GSM 900 and WCDMA mobile phones on cognitive function in young male subjects},
year = {2011},
doi = {10.1002/bem.20623},
url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bem.20623},
}