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Nature 213, 949 - 950 (04 March 1967); doi:10.1038/213949a0

Effect of Magnetic Fields on Reaction Time Performance

HOWARD FRIEDMAN, ROBERT O. BECKER & CHARLES H. BACHMAN

Veterans Administration Hospital, Syracuse, New York.
State University of New York, Upstate Medical Center.
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.

IN previous investigations1,2 we indicated some significant empirical relationships between selected geophysical parameters and gross measures of human behaviour. The present investigation attempts to demonstrate the effects of artificially produced magnetic fields on a standard, relatively uncomplicated, psychomotor task, simple reaction time.

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