Published Articles
* Co-first author, # Corresponding author.
27. Legge, G.E.*, Xiong, Y.Z.*, Gao, Q.Y., Gage, R., Knickel, T., Bigelow, C. Assessment of Newly Designed Fonts for Visual Accessibility. Plos ONE. In Press. (* Equal contribution).
26. Obaideen, A., Goldstein, J., Bradley, C., Massof, R., Fujiwara, K., Ramulu, P., Xiong, Y. Z.#. (2026). The impacts of hearing impairment on vision rehabilitation outcomes. JAMA Ophthalmology. In Press.
25. Agrawal, P., Bradley, C., Wittich, W., Nemargut, J., Xiong, Y. Z.#. (2026). Perceived sound localization abilities in blind individuals. Plos ONE. PLoS One. 2026 Feb 6;21(2):e0342118.
24. Gao, Q. Y., Manduchi, R., Ramulu, P., Legge, G.E., Xiong, Y. Z.# (2025). VI-OCR: “Visually Impaired” Text Recognition Pipeline for Text Accessibility Assessment. Scientific Reports. 16, 1269.
23. Brunt, D., Legge, G. E., Fletcher, D. C., & Xiong, Y. Z.# (2025) Perception of Straight Ahead With Vision, Hearing, and Proprioception by Individuals With Low Vision. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. In Press.
22. Reed, P., Nemargut J. P ., Goldstein J., Dirks C., Xiong, Y. Z#. (2025). Impacts of hearing impairment on independent travel in individuals with normal vision, low vision, and blindness. Trends in Hearing, 2025, 29.
21. Guan S. C.*, Xiong, Y. Z.*#, & Yu, C#. (2024). Double training reveals an interval-invariant representation of subsecond time in the brain. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 50(12), 1225–1235. (*, Co-first author; # , Corresponding author).
20. Zhao, X. N., Guan, S. C., Xiong, Y. Z., & Yu, C. (2024). Crossmodal to unimodal transfer of temporal perceptual learning. Perception, 53(11-12), 753-762.
19. Xiong, Y. Z.#, Nemargut J. P., Bradley, C., Wittich, W., & Legge G. E. (2024). Development and validation of a questionnaire for assessing visual and auditory spatial localization abilities in dual sensory impairment. Scientific Reports, 14, 7911.
18. Banerjee, S., Mihailovic, A., Miller, R., Gitlin, L. N., Xiong, Y. Z., West, S., Friedman, D. S., & Ramulu, P. Y. (2024). Relation between real-world home physical activity with home environment in elderly population with Visual impairment. JAMA Ophthalmology, 142(3):208–214.
17. Xiong, Y. Z.#, Addleman, D. A., Nguyen, N. A., Nelson, P., & Legge, G. E. (2023). Dual Sensory Impairment: Impact of Central Vision Loss and Hearing Loss on Visual and Auditory Localization. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 64(12), 23.
16. Xiong, Y. Z.*, Guan, S. C.*, & Yu, C. (2022). Cross-modal transfer of visual and auditory perceptual learning of subsecond time interval discrimination with double training. Scientific Reports, 12:10668. (*, Co-first author).
15. Xiong, Y. Z.*#, Atilgan, N.*#, Fletcher, D. C., & Legge, G. E. (2022). Digital reading with low Vision: Principles for selecting display size. Optom Vis Sci, 99(8):655-661. (*, Co-first author and corresponding author).
14. Xiong, Y. Z.*#, Addleman, D. A.*#, Nguyen, N. A., Nelson, P., & Legge, G. E. (2022). Visual and auditory spatial localization in younger and older adults. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 14:838194. (*, Co-first author and corresponding author).
13. Xiong, Y. Z.#, Kwon, M. Y., Liu, R., Bittner, A. K., Owsley, C., & Legge, G. E. (2021). A unified rule for binocular contrast summation applies to normal vision and common eye diseases. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 62(13), 6.
12. Xiong, Y. Z.#, Lei, Q., Calabrèse, A. & Legge, G. E. (2021). Simulating the effect of acuity and contrast sensitivity reduction on reading performance. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 15:671121.
11. Atilgan, N.*#, Xiong, Y. Z.*#, and Legge, G.E. (2020). Reconciling Print-Size and Display-Size Constraints on Reading. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. (*, Co-first author and Co-corresponding author).
10. Xiong, Y. Z.#, Kwon, M., Bittner, A.K., Virgili, G., Giacomelli, G. & Legge, G.E. (2020). Relationship between acuity and contrast sensitivity: Differences due to eye disease. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science.61(6), 40-40. doi:10.1167/iovs.61.6.40
9. Xiong, Y. Z.*, Guan S. C.*, & Yu, C. (2019). Perceptual learning evidence for an interval- and modality-invariant representation of subsecond time. bioRxiv. (*, Co-first author).
8. Xiong, Y. Z., Tang, D. L., Zhang, Y. X., & Yu, C. (2019). Complete Cross-frequency Transfer of Tone Frequency Learning after Double Training. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 149(1), 94–103.
7. Legge, G. E., Granquist, C., Lubet, A., Gage, R., & Xiong, Y.Z. (2019). Preserved tactile acuity in older pianists. Atten Percept Psychophysics, 81: 2619.
6. Xiong, Y. Z.#, Chen, Q. Y., & Legge, G, E. (2019). Reading with Letter Transpositions in Central and Peripheral Vision. Journal of Vision, 19(3):17.
5. Xiong, Y. Z.#, Calabrèse A., Cheong A.M.Y., & Legge G.E. (2018). Reading acuity as a predictor of low- vision reading performance. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 59, 4798-4803.
4. Xiong, Y. Z.#, Lorsung E.A., Mansfield J.S., Bigelow C., & Legge G.E. (2018). Fonts designed for macular degeneration: impact on reading. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 59:4, 82–4189.
3. Xiong, Y. Z., Zhang, J.Y., & Yu, C. (2016). Bottom-up and top-down influences at untrained conditions determine perceptual learning specificity and transfer. Elife, 5, e14614.
2. Xiong, Y. Z., Yu, C., & Zhang, J.Y. (2015). Perceptual learning eases crowding by reducing recognition errors but not position errors. Journal of Vision, 15(11):16, 1-13.
1. Xiong, Y. Z.*, Xie, X. Y. *, & Yu, C. (2015). Location and direction specificities in motion direction learning associated with training with a single direction stimulus. Vision Research. (*, Co-first author).
Articles Under Review or in Preparation
Jin, R., Brunt, B., Fletcher, D., Nemargut, J.P., Xiong YZ. Distance Judgement in Individuals with Vision and Hearing Loss. Under Review.
Gao, Q. Y., Chellapa, R., Peng, C., Legge, G.E., Xiong, Y. Z. From Ambiguity to Accuracy: Personalized Ray-Based Calibration for Accurate Egocentric Mid-Air Object Referring. Under Review.
Wang, M., Bleau, M., Li, X.M., Hou, F., Xiong, Y.Z., Nemargut, J.P. Towards a service-delivery model to serve orientation and mobility needs of people with visual impairments in China: A mixed-methods study. Under Review.
Xiong, Y. Z., Lei, Q., Hassan, S., Kersten, D., & Legge, G. E. Integrating Impaired Vision and Hearing to Improve Spatial Localization. In prep.
Selected Conference Presentations [2024 Onwards]
Xiong, Y. Z, Mies, A., Kendrick, K., Fletcher, D. C. Seeing faces from a distance: critical viewing distances for identity, emotion, and visual speech in individuals with low vision. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2024;65(7):437-437. Oral Presentation.
Gao, Q. Y., Manduchi, R., Ramulu, P., Legge, G.E., Xiong, Y. Z. Creating a “visually impaired” character recognition model for text accessibility assessment. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2024;65(7):1118-1118.
Reed, P., Nemargut, J. P., Goldstein, J. E., Lin, F., Xiong, Y. Z. Perceived challenges and coping strategies in hearing-impaired individuals across normal vision, low vision, and blindness. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2024;65(7):5977-5977.
Xiong, Y. Z., Lei, Q., Hassan, S., Kersten, D., Legge, G. E. Integrating impaired vision and hearing to improve spatial localization. Vision Science Society. 2024.
Xiong, Y. Z., Fletcher, D. C., & Legge, G. E. Beyond vision: The selection of preferred retinal loci is affected by hearing status. ARVO2023. Oral Presentation.
Xiong, Y. Z., Cihunka, H., Farrington, C., Nemargut, J., Wittich, W., & Legge, G. E. Spatial localization difficulties in blind individuals with hearing impairment. Vision2023. Oral Presentation.