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 AbstractThis small study found no immediate brain effects from 12 minutes of cell phone exposure in children, but lacked power to detect subtle changes.
Plain English Summary
Researchers tested whether cell phone radiation affects children's brain processing of sounds by placing GSM phones emitting 902 MHz signals next to 17 children's heads for 12 minutes while measuring brain activity. They found no statistically significant changes in the children's auditory processing abilities during exposure. However, the study was only large enough to detect major effects, meaning smaller impacts could have been missed.
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...
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@article{ms_2010_no_effects_of_mobile_3168,
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},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19771547/},
}