William B. Levy

The paper models how feedback connections from layer 6 of visual area V1 to LGN develop to preserve sensory input topology using voltage-activated T-channels and developmental spindling.

The paper quantifies energy use in neural computation and communication, finding communication costs are 35-fold higher than computation, and predicts synaptic transmission numbers.

The paper audits the energy consumption of human brain computation, finding cortical computation uses less than 0.2 watts while communication costs are much higher.