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Dr. Thomas Pierce

Title: Associate Professor

Program: Experimental

Ph.D.: University of Maine

Office: 411 Russell Hall

E-mail: tpierce@radford.edu

Phone: (540) 831-5444

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Areas of Research Interest: Aging and cognitive function, EEG correlates of cognitive functioning, Stress and coping, Cardiovascular reactivity to stress, Self-organizing systems models of cognition and aging

Recent Publications/Presentations:

  • Pierce, T.W., Kelly, S.P., Watson, T.D., King, J.S., Replogle, D., & Pribram, K.H. (2000). Age difference in dynamic analysis of EEG. Brain Topography, 13, 127-134.
  • Pierce. T.W. (2000). Reaction Time. In Encyclopedic Reference Work - Aging, Salem Press.
  • Pierce, T.W. (1999). The signal detection game: A class exercise for generating a ROC curve. In L. T. Benjamin, B. F. Nodine, R. M. Ernst, and C. Blair-Broeker (Eds.), Handbook of Activities in the Teaching of Psychology (4th Ed.), American Psychological Association.
  • Pierce, T.W., & King, J.S. (1998). Using EEG to study Alzheimer's disease and aging. The Virginia Psychologist: The Newsletter of the Virginia Psychological Association. Fall issue.
  • Madden, D.J., Pierce, T.W., & Allen, P.A. (1996). Adult age differences in the use of distractor homogeneity during visual search. Psychology and Aging, 11, 454-474.