Note: This study found no significant biological effects under its experimental conditions. We include all studies for scientific completeness.
No effects of mobile phone use on cortical auditory change-detection in children: an ERP study
Kwon MS, Huotilainen M, Shestakova A, Kujala T, Näätänen R, Hämäläinen H. · 2010
View Original AbstractShort cell phone exposure showed no effects on children's auditory brain function, but the study couldn't detect smaller impacts.
Plain English Summary
Researchers tested whether cell phone radiation affects children's ability to process sounds by measuring brain activity in 17 children aged 11-12 while they were exposed to 902 MHz signals from a GSM phone. The study found no significant changes in the brain's auditory processing or sound memory functions during short exposures (12 minutes total). However, the researchers noted their study could only detect large effects, meaning smaller impacts might have gone unnoticed.
Study Details
We investigated the effect of mobile phone use on the auditory sensory memory in children.
Auditory event‐related potentials (ERPs), P1, N2, mismatch negativity (MMN), and P3a, were recorded ...
We found that a short exposure (two 6 min blocks for each side) to mobile phone EMF has no statistic...
However, it should be noted that the present study only had sufficient statistical power to detect a large effect size.
Show BibTeX
@article{ms_2010_no_effects_of_mobile_2778,
author = {Kwon MS and Huotilainen M and Shestakova A and Kujala T and Näätänen R and Hämäläinen H. },
title = {No effects of mobile phone use on cortical auditory change-detection in children: an ERP study},
year = {2010},
doi = {10.1002/bem.20546},
url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bem.20546},
}