[lukeplato]

The research suggests the EM fields and underlying neural networks work together, i.e fields might provide a top-down energy-based attention mechanism while the network structures implement bottom-up agglomerations of information. Blocking EM fields wouldn't destroy memory but might pause or disturb the learned activation flows of neurons.

""" The researchers hypothesize that the field even appears to be a means the brain can employ to sculpt information flow to ensure the desired result. By imposing that a particular field emerge, it directs the activity of the participating neurons.

Indeed, that’s one of the next questions the scientists are investigating: Could electric fields be a means of controlling neurons?

“We are now using this work to ask whether information flows from the macroscale level of the electric field down to the microscale level of individual neurons,” Pinotsis says. “To make the analogy with the orchestra, we are now using this work to ask whether a conductor’s style changes the way an individual member of an orchestra plays her instrument.” """