Graham L. Pierce

Graduate Student

Cognitive Psychology Interest Group
Department of Psychology
Michigan State University

Advisor: Mark Becker
Past Advisors: Erik Altmann (2006-2007), John Henderson (2004-2006)

Publications

• Henderson, J. M. & Pierce, G. L. (in press). Eye movements during scene viewing: Evidence for mixed control of fixation durations. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
• Pierce, G. L., & Henderson, J. M. (2007). The control of fixation duration during scene perception. Visual Cognition, 15(1), 108-112.

Conference Presentations

• Pierce, G. L., & Altmann, E. M. (November, 2007). Recovery from visual disruptions in reading and scene viewing: Evidence from saccade hazard rates. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Workshop on Object Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM), Long Beach, CA.
• Henderson, J. M., Pierce, G. L., & Smith, T. J. (August, 2007). Fixation durations during scene viewing. Invited symposium talk at the 14th European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM), Potsdam, Germany.
• Pierce, G. L., & Henderson, J. M. (November, 2006). The control of fixation duration during scene perception. Paper presented at the 14th Annual Workshop on Object Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM), Houston, TX.
• Pierce, G. L., Rederstorff, J. C., & Agafonova, I. (May, 2005). Semantic manipulation of plural pronoun antecedent resolution. Poster presented at the 2005 Michigan State University Psycholinguistics Course Conference, East Lansing, MI.
• Patson, N. D., Pierce, G. L., Bartek, B., Ferreira, F., & Henderson, J. M. (March, 2005). The influence of concurrent linguistic information on fixation patterns during natural scene viewing. Poster presented at the 18th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Tuscon, AZ.

Invited Colloquia

• Pierce, G. L. (2007). Programming eyetracking experiments in Experiment Builder. Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY. [Example]
• Pierce, G. L. (2005). Creating web-pages in standards-compliant XHTML. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

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Education

• M.A., 2006, Michigan State University, Psychology
• B.A., 2004, Binghamton University, Psychology, magna cum laude

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Fellowships

• NSF: Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship, 2004-2008
• Michigan State University Distinguished Fellowship, 2004-2009

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MSU Affiliations

• Psycholinguistics and Visual Cognition Lab (Eyelab)
• IGERT Program
• Interdepartmental Graduate Specialization in Cognitive Science
• Cognitive Psychology Graduate Program
• Center for the Integrated Study of Vision and Language (CISVAL) [Defunct]

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Contact Information

• Lab/Primary Office:

  213 Psychology Building
  (517)355-2259
  
  

• Secondary Office:

  359 Giltner Hall
  (517)353-9431
  
  

• Mailing Address:

  Graham Pierce
  Department of Psychology
  Michigan State University
  East Lansing, MI 48824
  
  

• Fax:

  (517)353-3745 Attn: Graham Pierce
  
  

• Email Address:

  glpierce // msu.edu

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Recommended Free Software

• • Installed Locations:

    • ¹ Programs installed on computers in the Cognitive Graduate Student Office
    • ² Programs installed on computers in the Eyelab

  • Operating Systems:

    • Programs that run on Microsoft Windows Vista & Microsoft Windows XP
      • Programs that run on Microsoft Windows XP but not on Microsoft Windows Vista
    • Programs that run on GNU / Linux (e.g. Ubuntu)
      • Programs that run on GNU/Linux using Wine
    • Programs that run on Mac OS

  • Software Licenses:

    • GPL: GNU General Public License
    • LGPL: GNU Lesser General Public License
    • MPL: Mozilla Public License
    • MIT: MIT/X11 License
    • zlib: zlib/libpng License
    • TrueCrypt: TrueCrypt License

• Open-Source Software

  • Audacity¹²: Audio Recording/Editing [GPL]
  • CDex: Audio Extractor (CD Ripper) [GPL]
  • Dia: Diagram Drawing [GPL]
  • FileZilla¹²: FTP Client [GPL]
  • GIMP¹²: Image Editing [GPL]
  • jEdit: Text Editor for Programming [GPL]
  • Mozilla Firefox¹²: Web Browser [GPL/LGPL/MPL]
  • Mozilla Sunbird: Calendar [GPL/LGPL/MPL]
  • Mozilla Thunderbird: Email [GPL/LGPL/MPL]
  • OpenOffice.org¹²: Office Suite [LGPL]
  • • OpenOffice.org Writer: Text documents
    • OpenOffice.org Calc: Spreadsheets
    • OpenOffice.org Impress: Presentations
    • OpenOffice.org Base: Databases
    • OpenOffice.org Draw: Vector graphics
    • OpenOffice.org Math: Mathematical equations
  • R¹²: Statistical Computing and Graphics Environment [GPL]
  • PuTTY: SSH Client [MIT]
  • Rename-It!: Tool for Renaming Multiple Files [GPL]
  • Scribus¹²: Page Layout (4x3 MSU Poster Template) [GPL]
  • TightVNC: Remote Desktop Access [GPL]
  • TrueCrypt: On-The-Fly Encryption [TrueCrypt]
  • Ubuntu: Operating System (GNU/Linux Distribution) [Various; primarily GPL or similar]
  • VideoLAN VLC¹²: Media Player [GPL]
  • Graphical Disk Usage Utilities
  • • WinDirStat² [GPL/zlib]
    • KDirStat [GPL/LGPL]
    • GrandPerspective [GPL]

  Closed Source Software

  • AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition
  • Comodo Firewall Pro¹²
  • FreeSSHd: SSH Server
  • G*Power¹²: Statistical Power Analysis
  • Process Explorer¹²: System Monitoring/Debugging
  • XnView¹²: Image Conversion

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