Weak Electrical Field Found To Carry Information Around the Brain (eurekalert.org)

Zothecula writes: In a development that could lead to improved understanding of memory formation and epilepsy, scientists have discovered a new way information may be traveling throughout the brain. The team has identified slow-moving brainwaves it says could be carried only by the brain's gentle electrical field (abstract), a mechanism previously thought to be incapable of spreading neural signals altogether. "Although the electrical field is of low amplitude, the field excites and activates immediate neighbors, which, in turn, excite and activate immediate neighbors, and so on across the brain at a rate of about 0.1 meter per second."

Comments

Metric Conversions?

[_Sharp'r_]

0.1 meter per second.

What's that in decimeters/second?

What's the point in having lots of prefixes defined if you're then going to ignore them and use extra 0's and decimal points instead?

Sorry, pet peeve rant over.