Robert Levy
07-09-2003, 02:56 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.health-news.co.uk/showstory.asp?id=114644' target='_blank'>http://www.health-news.co.uk/showstory.asp?id=114644</a><br /><br /></div>There's an interesting article over on health-news.co.uk which talks about recent experiments which were done to determine the effects of mobile phone usage on short- and long-term memory.<br /><br />"The first phase required the participants to sit in a secluded room where they were given an active or inactive mobile phone or no phone at all. They were then asked to place the phones to their left ears while they were given a set of instructions and words to memorise. Mobile phone exposure, for those who had them, lasted a full 15 minutes.<br /><br />The researchers found that the men who were given active mobile phones made fewer mistakes in word recall than men with inactive phones. Female participants seemed to be unaffected by the experience."<br /><br />Sounds a bit hokey to me, but what do you think? Did you personally notice any changes like this when you started using a mobile phone? And, of course, the big question that science has yet to tackle: Do Smartphones make you smarter?