There is one problem with contour waves: they are slow. Contour waves run from cell to cell over very short axonal links, and these are generally not myelinated. Myelinated axons can conduct spikes at a rate of several m/s or more, but on non-myelinated axons the speed of propagation is only about one tenth of that.
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Legéndy, C.R. (2009). Nodes on Contour Strings. In: Circuits in the Brain. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-88849-1_15
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