If a retinal implant stimulates ganglion cells experiencing temporal dispersion due to varying axon lengths, which consequence is most likely?

💡 Explanation

Temporal dispersion causes signals from different retinal locations to arrive at the visual cortex at different times, disrupting motion perception because the timing of signals is crucial for processing movement. Therefore, motion perception is impaired, rather than color perception or acuity, which depend more on spatial resolution.

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