Evening smartphone exposure impairs sleep quality and next-day performance in elite soccer players: a randomized controlled trial.
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Jan 1, 2026
This randomized controlled crossover trial in 16 male elite soccer players compared two hours of smartphone use before bedtime with magazine reading. Five consecutive nights of pre-bedtime smartphone use significantly worsened multiple sleep metrics and increased sleepiness. The study also reports deteriorations in…
Effects of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields on cognitive function in elderly subjects (60+ years)-Results of an experimental randomized sham controlled double-blind cross-over study in women and in men.
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Jan 1, 2025
This double-blind randomized sham-controlled cross-over study tested short-term RF-EMF exposure effects on cognitive performance in 60 healthy adults aged 60–80 years. Participants completed attentional tasks during exposure to GSM 900 MHz, TETRA 385 MHz, or sham across nine sessions. Two of 16 outcomes showed…
Mobile phone use for 5 minutes can cause significant memory impairment in humans.
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Jan 1, 2017
This study assessed working memory before and after 5 minutes of mobile phone use using a brief computerized 10-word recall task. The experimental group showed worse performance immediately after phone use, with partial improvement 5 minutes later, while the control group improved across repeated tests without phone…
The Distracting Effects of a Ringing Cell Phone: An Investigation of the Laboratory and the Classroom Setting.
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Jan 1, 2009
This paper reports four experiments examining how a ringing cell phone affects cognitive performance in laboratory tasks and a college classroom lecture. In the lab, auditory conditions (including a standard cell phone ring) produced slower responses than silence, with slower recovery in the ring and song conditions.…