Basic Psychophysics

1. Binocular Vision

Mansfield, J.S. & Legge, G.E. (1997). Binocular visual direction, the cyclopean eye, and vergence: Reply to Banks, van Ee and Backus. Vision Research, 37(12), 1610-1613. (PDF)

Mansfield, J.S. & Legge, G.E. (1996). Binocular computation of visual direction. Vision Research, 36(1), 27-41. (article) (PDF)

McKee, S.P., Bravo, M.J., Smallman, H.S., & Legge, G.E. (1995). The "uniqueness constraint" and binocular masking. Perception , 24(1), 49-65. (article) (PDF)

McKee, S.P., Bravo, M.J., Taylor, D.G., & Legge, G.E. (1994). Stereo matching precedes dichoptic masking. Vision Research, 34(8), 1047-1060. (article) (PDF)

Legge, G.E. & Gu, Y. (1989). Stereopsis and contrast. Vision Research, 29(8), 989-1004. (article) (PDF)

Legge, G.E. (1984). Binocular contrast summation. I. Detection and discrimination. Vision Research, 24(4), 373-383. (article) (PDF)

Legge, G.E. (1984). Binocular contrast summation. II. Quadratic summation. Vision Research, 24(4), 385-394. (article) (PDF)

Legge, G.E. & Rubin, G.S. (1981). Binocular interactions in suprathreshold contrast perception. Perception and Psychophysics, 30(1), 49-61. (article) (PDF)

Legge, G.E. (1979). Spatial frequency masking in human vision: Binocular interactions. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 69(6), 838-847. (article) (PDF)

2. Contrast and Spatial Frequency

Chung, S.T.L. & Legge G.E. (2016). Comparing the shape of contrast sensitivity functions for normal and low vision. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 57(1), 198-207. (article) (PDF)

Kwon, M., Legge, G.E., Fang, F., Cheong, A.M.Y. & He, S. (2009). Adaptive changes in visual cortex following prolonged contrast reduction. Journal of Vision, 9(2), 20. (article) (PDF)

Akutsu, H. & Legge, G.E. (1995). Discrimination of compound gratings: Spatial frequency channels or local features? Vision Research, 35(19), 2685-2695. (article) (PDF)

Legge, G.E. & Kersten, D. (1987). Contrast discrimination in peripheral vision. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 4(8), 1594-1598. (article) (PDF)

Legge, G.E., Kersten, D., & Burgess, A.E. (1987). Contrast discrimination in noise. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 4(2), 391-404. (article) (PDF)

Burkhardt, D.A., Gottesman, J.G., Kersten, D., & Legge, G.E. (1984). Symmetry and constancy in the perception of negative and positive luminance contrast. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 1(3), 309-316. (article) (PDF)

Legge, G.E. & Kersten, D. (1983). Light and dark bars: Contrast discrimination. Vision Research, 23(5), 473-483. (article) (PDF)

Foley, J.M. & Legge, G.E. (1981). Contrast detection and near-threshold discrimination in human vision. Vision Research, 21(7), 1041-1053. (article) (PDF)

Gottesman, J., Rubin, G.S., & Legge, G.E. (1981). A power law for perceived contrast in human vision. Vision Research, 21(6), 791-799. (article) (PDF)

Legge, G.E. (1981). A power law for contrast discrimination. Vision Research, 21(4), 457-467. (article) (PDF)

Legge, G.E. & Foley, J.M. (1980). Contrast masking in human vision. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 70(12), 1458-1471. (article) (PDF)

Legge, G.E. (1978). Space domain properties of a spatial frequency channel in human vision. Vision Research, 18(8), 959-969. (article) (PDF)

Legge, G.E. (1978). Sustained and transient mechanisms in human vision: Spatial and temporal properties. Vision Research, 18(1), 69-81. (article) (PDF)

Legge, G.E., Cohen, M.A., & Stromeyer III, C.F. (1978). Spatial-frequency masking with briefly pulsed patterns. Perception, 7(2), 161-166. (article) (PDF)

Legge, G.E. (1976). Adaptation to a spatial impulse: Implications for Fourier transform models of visual processing. Vision Research, 16(12), 1407-1418. (article) (PDF)

Legge, G.E. (1976). Contrast detection in human vision: Spatial and temporal properties. Ph.D. Thesis, Harvard University. 

3. Accommodation and Lens

Akutsu, H., Legge, G.E., Luebker, A., Lindstrom, R.L., Zabel, R.W., & Kirby, V.M. (1993). Multifocal intraocular lenses and glare. Optometry and Vision Science, 70(6), 487-495. (article) (PMC) (PDF)

Akutsu, H., Legge, G.E., Showalter, M., Lindstrom, R.L., Zabel, R.W., & Kirby, V.M. (1992). Contrast sensitivity and reading through multifocal intraocular lenses. Archives of Ophthalmology, 110(8), 1076-1080. (article) (PDF)

Gu, Y. & Legge, G.E. (1987). Accommodation to stimuli in peripheral vision. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 4(8), 1681-1687. (article) (PDF)

Legge, G.E., Mullen, K.T., Woo, G.C., & Campbell, F.W. (1987). Tolerance to visual defocus. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 4(5), 851-863. (article) (PDF)

Kersten, D. & Legge, G.E. (1983). Convergence accommodation. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 73(3), 332-338. (article) (PDF)

4. Visual Patterns

Legge, G.E., Gu, Y., & Luebker, A. (1989). Efficiency of graphical perception. Perception & Psychophysics, 46(4), 365-374. Reprinted in slightly revised form in: S.R. Ellis (Ed.) Pictorial Communication in Virtual and Real Environments. Taylor & Francis. (article) (PDF)

Schlingensiepen, K.H., Campbell, F.W., Legge, G.E., & Walker, T.D. (1986). The importance of eye movements in the analysis of simple patterns. Vision Research, 26(7), 1111- 1117. (article) (PDF)

5. Hearing

Legge, G.E. & Viemeister, N.F. (1988). Sensory analysis in vision and audition: A commentary on Sensory Analysis by Donald Laming. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 11(2), 301-302. (article)

Legge, G.E., Grosmann, C., & Pieper, C.M. (1984). Learning unfamiliar voices. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 10(2), 298- 303. (article) (PDF)