Impact of Wi-Fi Electromagnetic Waves on Brainwaves

Abstract:

In the era of wireless communication, WiFi becomes an indispensable accessory to most of us. People use WIFI to interact with the wireless Internet, perform commercial and financial transactions, or conducting recreational activities, etc.Though it offers a more convenient life to people, the strong Electromagnetic waves(EMW) resulted from it endangers human health, that has already turned out to be the primary study for medical science. Furthermore, EMW also attracts concern and panic of the inhabitants living in the surroundings which is filled with high-frequency and low-frequency EMwave. EMW today comes from broadcast towers, the system of the wireless communication, GPS, TVs and defense satellites mostly. Enjoying the convenience resulted from communication technology, people nowadays should also concern about whether EM wave would damage people’s health at the same time. Based on the perspective of cognitive neuroscience, this study mainly focuses on how EM wave produced from WiFi affects subject’s brainwaves under a specific physiological situation. The researcher observes different changing of brainwave when human beings expose in various strength of EM wave, and analyses the affection of EMW toward subject’s brainwaves.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 1079-1080)
• Pages: 882-886
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1079-1080.882
• Online since: December 2014
• Authors: Fu Chien Kao*, Shin Ping R. Wang, Yun Kai Lin, Chih Chia Chen, Chih Hsun Huang
• Keywords: Brainwave, Cognitive Neuroscience, Electromagnetic Waves (EMW), WIFI

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