Petri Ala-Laurila
Adjunct Professor
Adjunct Professor
T314 Dept. Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering
Full researcher profile
https://research.aalto.fi/...
Honors and awards
Academy of Finland Award for Scientific Courage
Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career
Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering
Jan 2014
Paul F. Cranefield Award for the best paper
Submitted to the Journal of General Physiology in 2006 by a first-author postdoctoral fellow
Award or honor granted for a specific work
Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering
Jan 2007
2019 Scientific Communication Award (Aalto School of Science)
Award or honor granted for a specific work
Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering
Jan 2019
Neuroscientist of the Year Award
Award or honor granted for a specific work
Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering
Dec 2020
Publications
Retinal OFF ganglion cells allow detection of quantal shadows at starlight
Johan Westö, Nataliia Martyniuk, Sanna Koskela, Tuomas Turunen, Santtu Pentikäinen, Petri Ala-Laurila
2022
Current Biology
Silmä aivojen osana: Älykäs verkkokalvo pyydystää fotoneita ja ennustaa tulevaa
Aarni Seppänen, Petri Ala-Laurila
2021
Aivoaakkoset
Human retina trades single photons for high-fidelity coding at its sensitivity limit
Petri Ala-Laurila, Markku Kilpelainen, Johan Westo, Anton Laihi, Fred Rieke
2020
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Seeing With a Few Photons: Bridging Cellular and Circuit Mechanisms With Perception
Roozbeh Kiani, Petri Ala-Laurila, Fred Rieke
2020
The Senses: A Comprehensive Reference
Mice Reach Higher Visual Sensitivity at Night by Using a More Efficient Behavioral Strategy
Sanna Koskela, Tuomas Turunen, Petri Ala-Laurila
2020
Current Biology
Quantum Behavior
Aarni Seppanen, Tuomas Turunen, Johan Westo, Petri Ala-Laurila
2020
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Retinal loss sets a fundamental limit to the variance of visual signals originating from single-photon stimulation
Jussi Tiihonen, Amir Tavala, Krishna Dovzhik, Petri Ala-Laurila
2020
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Seeing Beyond Violet
Johan Westö, Petri Ala-Laurila
2020
Neuron
Paradoxical Rules of Spike Train Decoding Revealed at the Sensitivity Limit of Vision
Lina Smeds, Daisuke Takeshita, Tuomas Turunen, Jussi Tiihonen, Johan Westö, Nataliia Martyniuk, Aarni Seppänen, Petri Ala-Laurila
2019
Neuron
Processing of single-photon responses in the mammalian on and off retinal pathways at the sensitivity limit of vision
Daisuke Takeshita, Lina Smeds, Petri Ala-Laurila
2017
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B: BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES