Topic: sensory and motor delays

Retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) show high convergence onto their downstream projections, which poses a problem for information transfer: how is it possible to preserve information through a synaptic layer that has significantly more inputs than outputs? There are an infinite number of ways to perform compression, and lossy compression suggests efficient yet computation-agnostic methods for reading out input stimuli or activity patterns. However, downstream neurons must perform essential computations on their inputs for the organism’s survival, rather than simply recapitulate input activity. In t