Dr. Thomas Pierce

Title: Professor

Program: Experimental

Ph.D.: University of Maine

Office: 411 Russell Hall

E-mail: tpierce@radford.edu

Phone: (540) 831-5444

Homepage: www.radford.edu/~tpierce

Areas of Research Interest: Aging and cognitive function; Reminiscence and life review in healthy older adults and persons with Alzheimer’s disease; Cardiovascular psychophysiology; Dynamical systems models of cognition and aging

Recent Publications/Presentations:

  • Pierce, T.W. Using multimedia for intergenerational transmission of narrative, reminiscence, and life review. Symposium presentation accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. Dallas, TX. November 2006.

  • Pierce, T. W., Grim, R., & King, J. S. (2005).  Family history of hypertension and cardiovascular reactivity: A meta-analysis.  Psychophysiology, 42, 125-131.

  • Pierce, T. W. Evaluating Groups for Older Adults. (2005). In  B. Haight and F. Gibson (Eds.), Working with Older Adults (4th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Press.

  • Whiting, W. L., Madden, D. M., Pierce, T. W., & Allen, P. A.  (2005).  Searching from the top down: Aging and attentional guidance during singleton detection.  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58A, 72-97.

  • Pierce, T. W., Watson, T. D., King, J. S., Kelly, S. P., & Pribram, K. H.   (2003).  Age differences in factor analysis of EEG. Brain Topography, 17, 19-27.

  • 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.