Note: This study found no significant biological effects under its experimental conditions. We include all studies for scientific completeness.
Effects of thirty-minute mobile phone use on visuo-motor reaction time.
Terao Y, Okano T, Furubayashi T, Ugawa Y · 2006
View Original AbstractThirty minutes of mobile phone use doesn't impair reaction time or motor coordination in healthy adults.
Plain English Summary
Researchers tested whether 30 minutes of mobile phone use affects reaction time and movement speed in visual-motor tasks. In a well-designed study with 16 people, they found no differences in performance between real phone exposure and fake exposure. This suggests that short-term mobile phone use doesn't impair basic motor coordination or reaction speed.
Study Details
To investigate whether exposure to pulsed high-frequency electromagnetic field (pulsed EMF) emitted by a mobile phone has short-term effects on the visuo-motor choice reaction time (RT) and movement time (MT).
A double blind, counterbalanced crossover design was employed. In 16 normal subjects, we studied the...
The RTs and MTs under different conditions of precue information were not affected by exposure to pu...
Thirty minutes of mobile phone use has no significant short-term effect on the cortical visuo-motor processing as studied by the present PCRT task.
Show BibTeX
@article{y_2006_effects_of_thirtyminute_mobile_3440,
author = {Terao Y and Okano T and Furubayashi T and Ugawa Y},
title = {Effects of thirty-minute mobile phone use on visuo-motor reaction time.},
year = {2006},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17005447/},
}