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of Reading" series, published in peer-reviewed scientific journals between 1985 and 2002. These have been summarized and reviewed in the book "Psychophysics of reading in normal and low vision", which also contains a CDROM with the original articles.
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Mansfield J., Ahn, S., Legge, G.E., & Luebker, A. (1993). A new reading-acuity chart for normal and low vision. Ophthalmic and Visual Optics/Noninvasive Assessment of the Visual System Technical Digest, 3,
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Legge also sat on the Committee on Currency Features Usable by the Visually Impaired, which reviewed the design of U.S. currency bills (banknotes) in 1995.
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under the direction of R.J.W. Mansfield. Legge did his postdoctoral training with Fergus Campbell at the Physiological Laboratory,
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Legge, G.E. (2007), Psychophysics of reading in normal and low vision, Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
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Together with J. Stephen Mansfield, Legge also developed the
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Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
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