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Johan Westö

Aalto UniversityORCID 0000-0002-6215-9047Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:experimental assay· 2 Organism:human· 1 Organism:mouse· 1

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NeurosciencebioRxivPreprintDec 15, 2022

Human retina trades single-photon detection for high-fidelity contrast encoding

Markku Kilpeläinen, Johan Westö, Anton Laihi…·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.

DOI 10.1101/2022.12.15.520020

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NeuroscienceCurrent BiologyPeer-reviewedMay 23, 2022

Retinal OFF ganglion cells allow detection of quantal shadows at starlight

Johan Westö, Nataliia Martyniuk, Sanna Koskela…·Petri Ala‐Laurila

The paper shows that mice detect dim light shadows using the retinal OFF pathway, limited by noise and signal loss in retinal processing.

19 citations

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