Re: Questions about a distribution

Richard Ulrich <Rich.Ulrich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:b5n8n39v3ehpfr3nb1knt24ukqt57lim3q@xxxxxxx:

For folks who are *really fast*, I've wondered how
the time compares to the minimum number of axon
firings.


At some level, yes, but most of the response is overhead. A good portion
of the delay is going to be in vision, where the delay between retina and
Lateral Geniculate Nucleus is probably about 50-100 ms, and that's well
before visual cortex. Then, the brain needs to somehow generate a signal
on primary motor strip, and that process is going to be highly distributed
through big portions of brain. From primary motor strip to muscle, there
will be two synapses, one in spinal cord and one at the muscle, for maybe
4-10ms of delay.



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