Human retina trades single-photon detection for high-fidelity contrast encoding
Markku Kilpeläinen, Johan Westö, Anton Laihi, Daisuke Takeshita, Fred M Rieke, Petri Ala‐Laurila
The paper shows that human vision at its sensitivity limit relies on ON parasol ganglion cell spikes, which enable high-fidelity contrast encoding but not single-photon detection.
bioRxiv · Dec 15, 2022 · PreprintNeuroscience