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PhD Physiology University of California, Berkeley
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According to Wikipedia, Mathew Alpern was an American physiologist known for his research on color vision and color blindness. He was born in Akron, Ohio. He graduated from University of Florida in 1946 and from Ohio State University in 1950 with a PhD supervised by Glenn A. Fry. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1991. He died on May 16, 1996, at the University of Michigan Health System of congestive heart failure.

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Rhodopsin kinetics in the human eye (1971) (165)
Dark-light: model for nightblindness from the human rhodopsin Gly-90-->Asp mutation. (1995) (161)
The spectral sensitivity of the consensual light reflex (1962) (134)
The effect of a peripheral glare source upon the apparent brightness of an object. (1953) (132)
Dark Adaptation and Visual Pigment Regeneration in Human Cones (1973) (113)
Variability of accommodation during steady fixation at various levels of illuminance. (1958) (106)
Cone pigments in human deutan colour vision defects. (1977) (90)
Luminance-duration relationship in the electric response of the human retina. (1956) (89)
The specificity of the cone interaction in the after‐flash effect (1965) (84)
The density and photosensitivity of human rhodopsin in the living retina (1974) (80)
The enigma of typical total monochromacy. (1960) (80)
Rod—cone independence in the after‐flash effects (1965) (79)
A quantitative analysis of the horizontal movements of the eyes in the experiment of Johannes Mueller. I. Method and results. (1956) (77)
Lack of uniformity in colour matching. (1979) (74)
Vergence and accommodation. III. Proposed definitions of the AC/A ratios. (1959) (74)
The red and green cone visual pigments of deuternomalous trichromacy. (1977) (74)
The size of rod signals (1970) (72)
The kinetics of cone visual pigments in man. (1971) (72)
Signals from cones (1970) (69)
Typical total monochromacy. A histological and psychophysical study. (1965) (68)
Variation in the action spectrum of erythrolabe among deuteranopes. (1977) (67)
Colour vision in blue‐cone ‘monochromacy’ (1971) (64)
π1 Cone Monochromatism (1965) (62)
Vergence and accommodation. V. Pupil size changes associated with changes in accommodative vergence. (1961) (57)
Perception of colour in unilateral tritanopia. (1983) (54)
The effect of sympathomimetic drugs upon the amplitude of accommodation. (1959) (54)
Metacontrast; historical introduction. (1952) (53)
The attenuation of rod signals by backgrounds (1970) (52)
The effect of bleaching and backgrounds on pupil size. (1972) (51)
The relation of horizontal saccadic and vergence movements. (1956) (49)
The attenuation of rod signals by bleachings (1970) (49)
Photosensitivity of the Frog Iris (1963) (48)
The electroretinogram evoked by the excitation of human foveal cones (1967) (46)
Effect of photoexcitation of the two retinas on pupil size. (1967) (45)
Durations of the after-images of brief light flashes and the theory of the Broca and Sulzer phenomenon. (1962) (42)
Pupil responses to foveal exchange of monochromatic lights. (1980) (41)
The Luminosity Curve of the Protanomalous Fovea (1968) (41)
Centrally fixed flicker thresholds in amblyopia. (1960) (40)
“Self-screening” of rhodopsin in rod outer segments (1987) (39)
A quantitative analysis of the horizontal movements of the eyes in the experiment of Johannes Mueller. II. Effect of variation in target separation. (1956) (38)
A note on visual latency. (1968) (35)
Photic driving of the critical flicker frequency. (1961) (35)
The directional sensitivity of retinal rods. (1983) (34)
What is it that confines in a world without color? (1974) (34)
The Additivity of Contrast in the Human Eye (1959) (33)
The position of the eyes during prism vergence. (1957) (33)
Electroretinograms evoked by sinusoidal excitation of human cones. (1985) (32)
Rhodopsin bleaching signals in essential night blindness (1972) (32)
Visual pigment kinetics in abnormalities of the uvea-retinal epithelium interface in man. (1981) (32)
The Luminosity Curve of the Deuteranomalous Fovea (1968) (31)
The Dependence of the Photopupil Response on Flash Duration and Intensity (1963) (30)
Relation between Brightness and Color Contrast (1964) (30)
Vergence and accommodation. I. Can change in size induce vergence movements? (1958) (29)
Relation of visual latency to intensity. (1954) (29)
The variation of phoria with age. (1948) (28)
Electroretinography in patients with connective tissue diseases treated with hydroxychloroquine. (1970) (26)
Spectral transmittance of visible light by the living human eye. (1965) (26)
Response of the Pupil to Steady-State Retinal Illumination: Contribution by Cones (1965) (26)
Phoria Testing Distance Effect on Measurement at Various Accommodation Levels (1955) (23)
Eye Movements, Vision and Behavior (1975) (23)
Accommodation and convergence with contact lenses. (1949) (22)
Vergence and accommodation. IV. Effect of luminance quantity on the AC/A. (1960) (22)
Note on the electrical response of the human eye during dark adaptation. (1954) (21)
The after effect of lateral duction testing on subsequent phoria measurements. (1946) (21)
The dark-adaptation process of the pupillomotor photoreceptors. (1959) (21)
The directional sensitivities of the Stiles’ colour mechanisms. (1983) (21)
The nature of rise in threshold produced by contrast‐flashes (1967) (20)
Directional sensitivity of the pupillomotor photoreceptors. (1953) (20)
Factors influencing threshold of the fundamental electrical response to sinusoidal excitation of human photoreceptors. (1984) (19)
Variation of critical flicker frequency in the nasal visual field; relation to variation in size of the entrance pupil and to stray light within the eye. (1953) (19)
Simultaneous brightness contrast for flashes of light of different durations. (1963) (18)
The zone of clear single vision at the upper levels of accommodation and convergence. (1950) (17)
The density of human rhodopsin in the rods (1976) (17)
Adaptation of the pupil light reflex. (1972) (16)
Visual functions as indices of physiological changes in the acid-base balance of the blood. (1952) (16)
Effect of a Bright Light Flash on Dark Adaptation of Human Rods (1971) (16)
Altered ocular pigments, photostable and labile: two causes of deuteranomalous trichromacy. (1976) (15)
The dependence of the colour and brightness of a monochromatic light upon its angle of incidence on the retina. (1983) (14)
The saturation of monochromatic lights obliquely incident on the retina. (1983) (14)
Are there two types of deuteranopes? (1968) (13)
Vergence and accommodation. VI. The influence of ethanol on the AC-A ratio. (1969) (13)
Physiology of the Retina and Visual Pathway (1972) (13)
The action spectra of cone photoreceptors in the turtle (Mauremys caspica) retina (1994) (13)
The electrical response of the human eye in far-to-near accommodation. (1958) (12)
THE EFFECT OF VEILING LUMINANCE UPON THE APPARENT BRIGHTNESS OF AN OBJECT (1954) (12)
Encoding of Nerve Signals from Retinal Rods (1969) (12)
The effect on foveal vision produced by a spot of light on the sclera near the margin of the retina. (1953) (11)
Distal mechanisms of vertebrate color vision. (1968) (11)
Prereceptor colour vision distortions in protanomalous trichromacy (1968) (11)
The effects of autonomic drugs on human flicker discrimination. (1959) (11)
Pupillomotor spectral sensitivity curve and color of the fundus. (1962) (10)
The wavelength variation of the directional sensitivity of the stiles π1(μ) (1979) (10)
Classical tritanopia (1983) (10)
Influence of asymmetrical photoexcitation of the two retinas on pupil size. (1967) (9)
Vergence and accommodation. II. Is accommodative vergence related merely to the accommodation stimulus? (1958) (9)
Color blind color vision (1981) (8)
PI-1 CONE MONOCHROMATISM. (1965) (8)
The Blue Arcs of the Retina (1966) (7)
The effect of prism on esotropia; a case report. (1948) (7)
The change in color matches with retinal angle of incidence of the colorimeter beams (1987) (6)
Testing distance effects on phoria measurement at various accommodation levels. (1955) (6)
In search of the elusive long-wave fundamental (1982) (6)
The effect of luminance of the contrast inducing flashes on the spatial range of metacontrast. (1954) (5)
Tritanopia* (1976) (5)
Colour Vision Deficiencies XIII (1997) (5)
The Color Vision of the Color Blind (1981) (5)
Recent experiments on the physiology of strabismus amblyopia. (1967) (5)
Can the Response of the Iris to Light be Used to Break the Code of the Second Cranial Nerve in Man (1974) (5)
Theoretical implications of the response of a photoreceptor to a flash of light. (1946) (4)
Chromosomal rearrangement segregating with adrenoleukodystrophy: associated changes in color vision. (1993) (4)
Chromosomal rearrangement segregating with adrenoleukodystrophy: a molecular analysis. (1993) (3)
The Charles Prentice award lecture 1988: the directionality of color matches and its relation to secondary protanomalous trichromacy. (1989) (3)
The Human Visual Evoked Responses (1970) (3)
A note on the action spectrum of human rod vision (1987) (3)
Presentation of the Proctor Medal For Research in Vision and Ophthalmology to Gerald Westheimer. (1979) (2)
CONTACT LENS EXPERIMENTS OF THOMAS YOUNG (1948) (2)
Color-Blindness: An Evolutionary Approach (1971) (2)
Effect of Adaptation on the Retinal Nerve Code (1969) (2)
Some visual characteristics of Oguchi's disease (2004) (2)
Do deviations from radiance-invariance of metameric matches contradict the three pigment theory of foveal trichromacy? (1990) (2)
The wavelength variation of the directional sensitivity of the Stiles pi1(mu). (1979) (2)
On presentation of the Friedenwald Award in ophthalmology to Christina Enroth-Cugell and John G. Robson. Introduction of the Jonas Stein Friedenwald Award for 1983. (1984) (1)
Walter Stanley Stiles, 15 June 1901 - 15 December 1985 (1988) (1)
Visual Psychophysics (1972) (1)
How valid is a scleral tonometer? (1960) (1)
Remarks on receipt of the Friedenwald Award. (1974) (1)
A tough nut. (1976) (1)
USE OF COMPLEX NUMBERS IN THE DESIGNATION OF OPHTHALMIC PRISMS (1945) (0)
pupil size in the dark with a pupillometer and the regeneration of rhodopsin with the retinal (2002) (0)
Book Reviews (1923) (0)
DIST AL MECHANISMS OF VERTEBRATE COLOR VISION1,2 (1968) (0)
The change in the neutral point of dichromats with change in the angle of incidence of monochromatic light on the retina. (1990) (0)
Austin, GA, 232 (1985) (0)
Oguchi's Disease (1968) (0)
Fundamentals of Visual Science (1970) (0)
Preoperative Evaluation of Visual Function: Introduction (1978) (0)
EFFECT OF FLASHES OF LIGHT ON NIGHT VISUAL ACUITY. PART 1 (1953) (0)
Vision: The effect of the angle of retinal incidence on the color of monochromatic light (1991) (0)
Visual Optics and Refraction a Clinical Approach (1976) (0)
A TELESCOPIC METHOD OF OPHTHALMOSCOPY (1942) (0)
Further comment on accommodation and convergence with contact lenses. (1950) (0)
Rod and cone visual pigment kinetics in night blindness (1979) (0)
Field sensitivity action spectra of turtle cones (1992) (0)

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