Gordon Legge

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Professor Gordon E. Legge is Distinguished McKnight University Professor and chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota.

His major research interest is in reading with normal vision and low vision (visual impairment). He is the author of a seminal series of papers known as the "Psychophysics of Reading" series, published in peer-reviewed scientific journals between 1985 and 2002. These have recently been published in the book "Psychophysics of reading in normal and low vision".

Together with Drs Steve Mansfield, Andrew Luebker and Kathryn Cunningham, Prof Legge also developed the MNREAD test[1], which has become an internationally accepted standard test for measurement of reading speed in low vision clinics and clinical research.

Dr Legge also sat on the Committee on Currency Features Usable by the Visually Impaired, which reviewed the design of US bills (banknotes) in 1995.[2]