DALLAS: A recent study by researchers from the Mayo Clinic found that sending text messages on a smartphone creates a brand-new brain rhythm, different from any that have been previously described. This brainwave was found only in subjects who were text messaging, not in those performing other, similar tasks.
The study covered 129 patients over 16 months, who completed tasks on smartphones and tablets including texting, finger tapping and audio telephone use, as well as tests related to user attention and cognitive functions while their brain waves were monitored on an electroencephalogram (EEG).
The unique ‘texting rhythm’ was found in 1 of 5 subjects who were texting, and was repeatable for those subjects: it occurred each time they texted. The texting rhythm did not show up in the EEG results of any subjects performing other tasks…