Jon Peirce

Contact

• workRoom C57 School of Psychology
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• work0115 84 67176
• jonathan.peirce@nottingham.ac.uk
• http://www.peirce.org.uk

Biography

Positions

• Jan 2007 - Present: Associate Professor, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK
• Sept 2003 - Jan 2007: Lecturer, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK
• Jan 2000 - Sept 2003: Research Fellow, Center for Neural Science, New York University, USA
• Sept 1996 - Sept 1999: PhD (Neuroscience), Babraham Institute, University of Cambridge, UK
• Sept 1992 - July 1996: Undergraduate (BSc Psychology), School of Psychology University of St Andrews, UK

Funding

• Jan 2018 - Jan 2020: Wellcome Trust Technology Development Grant (£207k)
• Oct 2008 - Oct 2011: Wellcome Trust Project Grant (£242k)
• Jan 2005 - Jan 2008: BBSRC Project Grant (£230k)
• Mar 2004 - Mar 2005: Royal Society research grant (£15k)

Research Summary

Neuroscience methods

I also have a strong interest in how we optimally study the brain and behaviour. This led me to create the free software package for behavioural science, PsychoPy and the experiment repository Pavlovia.org

Initially developed just for my lab, PsychoPy has become a very popular package with tens of thousands of users from all over the world. See PsychoPy usage stats for further details.

Mid-level Vision

A great deal is known about the initial steps of visual processing. We know that humans have neural mechanisms selectively tuned to simple patterns of particular spatial frequencies and orientations. Much later in the visual pathway, in inferotemporal (IT) cortex, cells respond to extremely complex visual patterns such as images of faces. Very little is known about intermediate levels of visual processing, where early visual signals are presumably combined to represent increasingly complex visual features. Characterising those intermediate mechanisms is the primary interest of my lab.

Selected Publications

• SAPOUNTZIS, P., SCHLUPPECK, D., BOWTELL, R. and PEIRCE, J.W., 2010. A comparison of FMRI adaptation and multivariate pattern classification analysis in visual cortex Neuroimage. 49(2), 1632-1640
• HANCOCK, S., MCGOVERN, D.P. and PEIRCE, J.W., 2010. Ameliorating the combinatorial explosion with spatial frequency-matched combinations of V1 outputs Journal of Vision. 10(8), 7
• PEIRCE, J.W., SOLOMON, S.G., FORTE, J.D. and LENNIE, P., 2008. Cortical representation of color is binocular Journal of Vision. 8(3), 6
• HANCOCK, S. and PEIRCE, J.W., 2008. Selective mechanisms for simple contours revealed by compound adaptation Journal of Vision. 8(7), 11

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• PEIRCE J, GRAY JR, SIMPSON S, MACASKILL M, HÖCHENBERGER R, SOGO H, KASTMAN E and LINDELØV JK, 2019. PsychoPy2: Experiments in behavior made easy. Behavior research methods. 51, 195
• PEIRCE, J and MACASKILL, M, 2018. Building experiments in PsychoPy Los Angeles : SAGE.
• TSIKANDILAKIS, MYRON, CHAPMAN, PETER and PEIRCE, JONATHAN, 2018. Target meta-awareness is a necessary condition for physiological responses to masked emotional faces: Evidence from combined skin conductance and heart rate assessment CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION. 58, 75-89
• CUNNINGHAM DGM, BAKER DH and PEIRCE JW, 2017. Measuring nonlinear signal combination using EEG. Journal of vision. 17(5), 10
• TSIKANDILAKIS M, CHAPMAN P and PEIRCE J, 2017. Target meta-awareness is a necessary condition for physiological responses to masked emotional faces: Evidence from combined skin conductance and heart rate assessment. Consciousness and cognition. 58, 75-89
• PEIRCE JW, 2015. Understanding mid-level representations in visual processing. Journal of vision. 15(7), 5
• SHARMAN, REBECCA J., MCGRAW, PAUL V. and PEIRCE, JONATHAN W., 2015. Cue Combination of Conflicting Color and Luminance Edges I-PERCEPTION. 6(6),
• PEIRCE JW, 2013. Is it just motion that silences awareness of other visual changes? Journal of vision. 13(7), 17
• SHARMAN RJ, MCGRAW PV and PEIRCE JW, 2013. Luminance cues constrain chromatic blur discrimination in natural scene stimuli. Journal of vision. 13(4), 14
• PEIRCE JW, 2013. Nonlinear response functions can still be used to build conjunction detectors: reply to May and Zhaoping. Journal of vision. 13(4), 23
• SVENSSON, C., COOMBES, S. and PEIRCE, J.W., 2012. Using evolutionary algorithms for fitting high-dimensional models to neuronal data Neuroinformatics. 10(2), 199-218
• BECKETT, A., PEIRCE, J.W., SANCHEZ-PANCHUELO, R.M., FRANCIS, S. and SCHLUPPECK, D., 2012. Contribution of large scale biases in decoding of direction-of-motion from high-resolution fMRI data in human early visual cortex NeuroImage. 63(3), 1623-1632
• MCGOVERN, D.P., WEBB, B.S. and PEIRCE, J.W., 2012. Transfer of perceptual learning between different visual tasks Journal of Vision. 12(11), 4
• PEIRCE J, 2011. Nonlinear Summation Really Can Be Used To Perform And Operations: Reply To May And Zhaoping. Journal Of Vision. 11(9),
• MCGOVERN DP, HANCOCK S and PEIRCE JW, 2011. The Timing Of Binding And Segregation Of Two Compound Aftereffects. Vision Research. 51(9), 1047-57
• SAPOUNTZIS, P., SCHLUPPECK, D., BOWTELL, R. and PEIRCE, J.W., 2010. A comparison of FMRI adaptation and multivariate pattern classification analysis in visual cortex Neuroimage. 49(2), 1632-1640
• MCGOVERN, D.P. and PEIRCE, J.W., 2010. The spatial characteristics of plaid-form-selective mechanisms Vision Research. 50(8), 796-804
• HANCOCK, S., MCGOVERN, D.P. and PEIRCE, J.W., 2010. Ameliorating the combinatorial explosion with spatial frequency-matched combinations of V1 outputs Journal of Vision. 10(8), 7
• BELL, J., HANCOCK, S., KINGDOM, F.A.A. and PEIRCE, J.W., 2010. Global shape processing: which parts form the whole? Journal of Vision. 10(6), 16
• PEIRCE, J.W., 2009. Generating stimuli for neuroscience using psychoPy Frontiers in Neuroinformatics. 2, 10
• WEBB, B.S., ROACH, N.W. and PEIRCE, J.W., 2008. Masking exposes multiple global form mechanisms Journal of Vision. 8(9), 16
• HANCOCK, S. and PEIRCE, J.W., 2008. Selective mechanisms for simple contours revealed by compound adaptation Journal of Vision. 8(7), 11
• PEIRCE, J.W., SOLOMON, S.G., FORTE, J.D. and LENNIE, P., 2008. Cortical representation of color is binocular Journal of Vision. 8(3), 6
• PEIRCE, J.W., 2007. PsychoPy-psychophysics software in Python. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 162(1-2), 8-13
• TAILBY, CHRIS, SOLOMON, SAMUEL G, PEIRCE, JONATHAN W and METHA, ANDREW B, 2007. Two expressions of "surround suppression" in V1 that arise independent of cortical mechanisms of suppression. Visual neuroscience. 24(1), 99-109
• PEIRCE, JONATHAN W, 2007. The potential importance of saturating and supersaturating contrast response functions in visual cortex. Journal of Vision. 7(6), 13
• PEIRCE, J.W. and TAYLOR, L.J., 2006. Selective mechanisms for complex visual patterns revealed by adaptation Neuroscience. 141(1), 15-18
• SOLOMON, S.G., PEIRCE, J.W., DHRUV, N.T. and LENNIE, P., 2004. Profound contast adaptation early in the visual pathway Neuron. 42(1), 155-162
• SOLOMON, S. G., PEIRCE, J. W. and LENNIE, P., 2004. The Impact of Suppressive Surrounds on Chromatic Properties of Cortical Neurons Journal of Neuroscience. VOL 24(PART 1), 148-160
• FORTE, J., PEIRCE, J. W. and LENNIE, P., 2002. Binocular integration of partially occluded surfaces Vision Research. VOL 42(NUMBER 10), 1225-1235
• PEIRCE, J. W. and KENDRICK, K. M., 2002. Functional asymmetry in sheep temporal cortex NeuroReport. VOL 13(PART 18), 2395-2399
• FORTE, J., PEIRCE, J. W., KRAFT, J. M., KRAUSKOPF, J. and LENNIE, P., 2002. Residual eye-movements in macaque and their effects on visual responses of neurons Visual Neuroscience. VOL 19(PART 1), 31-38
• KENDRICK, K.M., DA COSTA, A.P., LEIGH, A.F., HINTON, M.R. and PEIRCE, J.W., 2001. Sheep don't forget a face Nature. 414(6860), 165-166
• PEIRCE, J. W., LEIGH, A. E., DACOSTA, A. P. and KENDRICK, K. M., 2001. Human face recognition in sheep: lack of configurational coding and right hemisphere advantage Behavioural Processes. VOL 55(NUMBER 1), 13 - 26
• PEIRCE, J W, LEIGH, A E and KENDRICK, K M, 2000. Configurational coding, familiarity and the right hemisphere advantage for face recognition in sheep. Neuropsychologia. 38(4), 475-83
• PENTON-VOAK, I. S., PERRETT, D. I. and PEIRCE, J. W., 1999. Computer Graphic Studies of the Role of Facial Similarity in Judgements of Attractiveness Current Psychology. VOL 18(NUMBER 1), 104-117