Publications:
Translational Sensory and Circadian Neuroscience

Fernandez-Alonso, M.; Innes, W.; Read, J.: Peripheral Flicker Fusion at High Luminance: Beyond the Ferry-Porter Law. Vision 7 (1), 26 (2023)

Schöllhorn, I.; Stefani , O.; Lucas, R.; Spitschan, M.; Slawik, H.; Cajochen, C.: Melanopic irradiance defines the impact of evening display light on sleep latency, melatonin and alertness. Communications Biology 6 (1), 228 (2023)

Vidafar, P.; Spitschan, M.: Light on Shedding: A Review of Sex and Menstrual Cycle Differences in the Physiological Effects of Light in Humans. Journal of Biological Rhythms 38 (1), pp. 15 - 33 (2023)

Kwasnicka, D.; Keller, J.; Perski, O.; Potthoff , S.; Ten Hoor, G.; Ainsworth, B.; Crutzen, R.; Dohle, S.; van Dongen, A.; Heino, M. et al.; Henrich, J.; Knox, L.; König, L.; Maltinsky, W.; McCallum, C.; Nalukwago, J.; Neter, E.; Nurmi, J.; Spitschan, M.; Van Beurden, S.; Van der Laan, L.; Wunsch, K.; Levink, J.; Sanderman, K.: White Paper: Open Digital Health - accelerating transparent and scalable health promotion and treatment. Health Psychology Review 16 (4), pp. 475 - 491 (2022)

Spitschan, M.; Smolders, K.; Vandendriessche, B.; Bent, B.; Bakker, J.; Rodriguez-Chavez, I.; Vetter, C.: Verification, analytical validation and clinical validation (V3) of wearable dosimeters and light loggers. Digital Health 8 (12), 20552076221144858 (2022)

Blume, C.; Niedernhuber, M.; Spitschan, M.; Slawik, H.; Meyer, M.; Bekinschtein, T.; Cajochen, C.: Melatonin suppression does not automatically alter sleepiness, vigilance, sensory processing, or sleep. Sleep 45 (11), zsac199 (2022)

Martin, J.; Pinto, J.; Bulte, D.; Spitschan, M.: Correction to: PyPlr: A versatile, integrated system of hardware and software for researching the human pupillary light reflex. Behavior Research Methods 54 (5), pp. 2622 - 2624 (2022)

Pisanski, K.; Fernandez Alonso, M.; Díaz-Simón, N.; Oleszkiewicz, A.; Sardinas, A.; Pellegrino, R.; Estevez, N.; Mora, E.; Luckett, C.; Feinberg, D.: Assortative mate preferences for height across short-term and long-term relationship contexts in a cross-cultural sample. Frontiers in Psychology 13, 937146 (2022)

Spitschan, M.; Meed, J.; Roos, C.; Lowis, C.; Griffiths, B.; Mucur, P.; Herf, M.; Nam, S.; Veitch, J.: luox: validated reference open-access and open-source web platform for calculating and sharing physiologically relevant quantities for light and lighting. Wellcome Open Research 6, 69 (2022)

Brown, T.; Brainard, G.; Cajochen, C.; Czeisler, C.; Hanifin, J.; Lockley, S.; Lucas, R.; Münch, M.; O'Hagan, J.; Peirson, S. et al.; Price, L.; Roenneberg, R.; Schlangen, L.; Skene, D.; Spitschan, M.; Vetter, C.; Zee, P.; Wright, K.: Recommendations for daytime, evening, and nighttime indoor light exposure to best support physiology, sleep, and wakefulness in healthy adults. PLoS Biology 20 (3) (2022)

Joyce, D.; Spitschan, M.; Zeitzer, J.: Duration invariance and intensity dependence of the human circadian system phase shifting response to brief light flashes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 289 (1970) (2022)

Webler, F.; Spitschan, M.; Andersen, M.: Towards "Fourth Paradigm" Spectral Sensing. Sensors 22 (6), 2377 (2022)

Spitschan, M.; Santhi, N.; Ahluwalia, A.; Fischer , D.; Hunt, L.; Karp, N.; Lévi , F.; Pineda-Torra, I.; Vidafar, P.: Science Forum: Sex differences and sex bias in human circadian and sleep physiology research. eLife 11 (2022)

Spitschan, M.; Santhi, N.: Individual differences and diversity in human physiological responses to light. EBioMedicine 75, 103640 (2022)

Steel, L.; Tir, S.; Tam, S.; Bussell, J.; Spitschan, M.; Foster, R.; Peirson, S.: Effects of Cage Position and Light Transmission on Home Cage Activity and Circadian Entrainment in Mice. Frontiers in Neuroscience 15, 832535 (2022)

Santhi, N.; Spitschan, M. (Eds.): Circadian and Visual Neuroscience. Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2022), 355 pp.

Patterson Gentile, C.; Spitschan, M.; Taskin, H.; Bock, A.; Aguirre, G.: The temporal sensitivity of visual cortex reflects an eccentricity-dependent variation in surround inhibition. In Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS 2023), 25.23. Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS 2023), St. Pete Beach, FL, USA, May 19, 2023 - May 24, 2023. (2023)

Blume, C.; Niedernhuber, M.; Spitschan, M.; Slawik, H.; Meyer, M.; Bekinschtein, T.; Cajochen, C.: Light targeting the melanopic system suppresses melatonin, but does not alter sleepiness, vigilance, sensory processing, or sleep. In Journal of sleep research, 31 (Supplement 1), O108/P331, p. 12. 26th Conference of the European Sleep Research Society (Sleep Europe 2022), Athens, Greece, September 27, 2022 - September 30, 2022. Published on behalf of the European Sleep Research Society by Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (2022)

Schöllhorn, I.; Stefani, O.; Lucas, R.; Spitschan, M.; Cajochen, C.: Investigating the exclusive melanopsin-dependent impact of evening display light on sleep latency, subjective sleep quality and melatonin by silencing cones. In Journal of sleep research, 31 (Supplement 1), O146/P336, p. 15. 26th Conference of the European Sleep Research Society (Sleep Europe 2022), Athens, Greece, September 27, 2022 - September 30, 2022. Published on behalf of the European Sleep Research Society by Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (2022)

Siraji, M.; Lazar, R.; van Duijnhoven, J.; Schlangen, L.; Haque, S.; Kalavally, V.; Vetter, C.; Glickman, G.; Smolders, K.; Spitschan, M.: Light Exposure Behavior Assessment (Leba): A Novel Self-Reported Instrument to Measure Light Exposure-Related Behavior. In Clocks & Sleep, 4 (3), 2.23, pp. 429 - 431. 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms (SLTBR 2022), Manchester, UK, June 23, 2022 - June 25, 2022. MDPI, Basel, Switzerland (2022)