Research
My research primarily concerns the perceptual and cognitive processes involved in reading, particularly the dependence of reading performance on print size.
Publications
Baskaran, K., Macedo, A. F., He, Y., Hernandez-Moreno, L., D Queirós, T., Mansfield, J. S., & Calabrèse, A. (2019). Scoring reading parameters: An inter-rater reliability study using the MNREAD chart. PLOS ONE, 14(6), 1–14. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0216775
Mansfield, J. S., Atilgan, N., Lewis, A. M., & Legge, G. E. (2019). Extending the MNREAD sentence corpus: Computer-generated sentences for measuring visual performance in reading. Vision Research, 158, 11–18. doi:10.1016/j.visres.2019.01.010
Xiong, Y-Z., Lorsung, E. A., Mansfield, J. S., Bigelow, C., & Legge, G. E. (2018). Fonts designed for macular degeneration: Impact on reading. Investigative Opthalmology and Visual Science, 59, 4182–4189. doi:10.1167/iovs.18-24334
Calabrèse, A., Cheong. A. M., Cheung, S. H., He, Y., Kwon, M., Mansfield, J. S., Subramanian, A., Yu, D., & Legge, G. E. (2016). Baseline MNREAD measures for normally sighted subjects from childhood to old age. Investigative Opthalmology and Visual Science, 57, 3836–3843. doi:10.1167/iovs.16-19580
Chung, S. T. L. & Mansfield, J. S. (2009). Contrast polarity differences reduce crowding but do not benefit reading performance in peripheral vision. Vision Research, 49, 2782–2789. doi:10.1016/j.visres.2009.08.013
Mansfield, J. S., & Legge, G. E. (2008). Reliability Testing of the Dutch Version of the Radner Reading Charts. Optometry and Vision Science, 85, 1201–1202. doi:OPX.0b013e31818e8ee3
Mansfield, J. S., & Legge, G. E. (2007). The MNREAD Acuity Chart. In Legge, G. E. "The Psychophysics of Reading in Normal and Low Vision", Mahwah, NJ & London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. pp 167–191.
Mansfield, J. S., & Legge, G. E. (2007). Print size definitions and conversions. In Legge, G. E. "The Psychophysics of Reading in Normal and Low Vision", Mahwah, NJ & London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. pp 193–197.
Stankiewicz, B.J., Legge, G. E., Mansfield, J. S., & Schlicht, E. J. (2006). Lost in Virtual Space: Studies in Human and Ideal Spatial Navigation. Journal of Experimenal Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 32, 688 704. doi:10.1037/0096-1523.32.3.688
O'Brien, B. A., Mansfield, J. S., & Legge, G. E. (2005). The effect of print size on reading speed in dyslexia. Journal of Research in Reading, 28, 332–349. doi:j.1467-9817.2005.00273.x
Mansfield, J. S. (2004). Textbook plagiarism in PSY101 General Psychology: incidence and prevention. Presented at the 18th Annual Conference on Undergraduate teaching of psychology: ideas & innovations. SUNY Farmingdale, New York, USA.
Proceedings
Legge, G. E., Hooven, T. A., Klitz T. S., Mansfield, J. S., & Tjan, B. S. (2002). Mr. Chips 2002: New insights from an ideal-observer model of reading. Vision Research, 42, 2219–2234. doi:10.1016/S0042-6989(02)00131-1
Legge, G. E., Mansfield, J. S., & Chung, S. T. L. (2001). Psychophysics of reading. XX. Linking letter recognition to reading speed in central and peripheral vision. Vision Research, 41, 725–743. doi:10.1016/S0042-6989(00)00295-9
O'Brien, B. A., Mansfield J. S., & Legge G. E. (2001). Comment on letter to the Editor: Is dyslexia caused by a visual deficit? Vision Research, 41, 3071. doi:10.1016/S0042-6989(01)00128-6
O'Brien, B. A., Mansfield J. S., & Legge G. E. (2000). The effect of contrast on reading speed in dyslexia. Vision Research, 40, 1921–1935. doi:10.1016/S0042-6989(00)00041-9
Legge, G. E., Madison, C., & Mansfield, J. S. (1999). Measuring Braille reading speed with the MNREAD test. Vision Impairment Research, 1, 131–145. doi:10.1076/vimr.1.3.131.4438
Chung S. T. L., Mansfield J. S., & Legge G. E. (1998). Psychophysics of reading. XVIII. The effect of print size on reading speed in normal peripheral vision. Vision Research, 38, 2949–2962. doi:10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00072-8
Jobling, J. T., Mansfield, J. S., Legge, G. E., & Menge, M. R. (1997). Motion parallax: effects of blur, contrast, and field size in normal and low vision. Perception, 26, 1529–1538. 10.1068/p261529
Oda, K., Mansfield, J. S. & Legge, G. E. (1998). A new reading chart to prescribe low vision reading aids named MNREAD-J. Proceedings of the 7th Convention of the Japanese Association for Rehabilitation of the Visually Impaired, pp. 157–160.
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, 1610–1613. doi:10.1016/S0042-6989(97)83123-9
Mansfield, J. S. & Legge, G. E. (1996). The binocular computation of visual direction. Vision Research, 36, 27–41. 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00095-H
Mansfield, J. S., Legge, G. E., & Bane, M. C. (1996). Psychophysics of reading. XV. Font effects in normal and low vision. Investigative Ophthalmology and Vision Science, 37, 1492–1501. Link to article
Mansfield, J. S., Ahn, S. J., 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, (Optical Society of America, Washington, DC., 1993.), 3, 232–235.
Mansfield, J. S. & Parker, A. J. (1993). An orientation-tuned component in the contrast masking of stereopsis. Vision Research, 33, 1535–1544. doi:10.1016/0042-6989(93)90146-N
Parker, A. J., Johnston, E. B., Mansfield, J. S., & Yang, Y. (1991). Stereo, surfaces and shape. In Landy, M. S. and Movshon, J. A. (Eds). Computational models of visual processing. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Mansfield, J. S. (1989). Masking of depth identification in bandpass-filtered stereograms by humans is orientation tuned. Journal of Physiology, 417, 91P.