Alison Heck
Biographic Data
| ID | 8525445 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison Heck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison |
| FAMILY NAME | Heck |
| SIGNATURE | HECK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Berea College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Body structure processing and attentional patterns in infancy and adulthood
Infants are sensitive to distortions to the global configurations of bodies by 3.5 months of age, suggesting an early onset of body knowledge. It is unclear, however, whether such sensitivity indicates knowledge of the location of specific body parts or solely reflects sensitivity to the overall gestalt of bodies. This study addressed this issue by examining whether, like adults, infants attend to specific locations where body parts have been reo…
Average fixation duration in infancy: Stability and predictive utility
The current study examined the stability, consistency, and predictive utility of average fixation durations in infancy. In Study 1, infants' ( N = 80) average fixation duration when viewing social stimuli was found to show strong relative stability from 3.5 to 9 months of age. In Study 2, strong within‐infant consistency was found in 3.5‐month‐old infants' ( N = 73) average fixation durations to social and nonsocial stimuli. In Study 3, 3.5‐ to 9…
Categorical Perception of Facial Emotions in Infancy
Categorical perception, indicated by superior discrimination between stimuli that cross categorical boundaries than between stimuli within a category, is an efficient manner of classification. The current study examined the development of categorical perception of emotional stimuli in infancy. We used morphed facial images to investigate whether infants find contrasts between emotional facial images that cross categorical boundaries to be more sa…
Integrated Emotion Processing in Infancy: Matching of Faces and Bodies
Accurate assessment of emotion requires the coordination of information from different sources such as faces, bodies, and voices. Adults readily integrate facial and bodily emotions. However, not much is known about the developmental origin of this capacity. Using a familiarization paired‐comparison procedure, 6.5‐month‐olds in the current experiments were familiarized to happy, angry, or sad emotions in faces or bodies and tested with the opposi…
Bimodal Dynamics of Faces and Voices Influence Older Infants' Perception of Emotion
Given the importance of infants' perception of bimodal speech for emerging language and emotion development, this study used eye‐tracking technology to examine infants' attention to face+voice displays differing by emotion (fear, sad, happy) and visual stimulus (dynamic versus static). Peripheral distracters were presented to measure attention disengagement. It was predicted that infants would look longer at and disengage more slowly from dynamic…
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Bimodal Dynamics of Faces and Voices Influence Older Infants' Perception of Emotion
Given the importance of infants' perception of bimodal speech for emerging language and emotion development, this study used eye‐tracking technology to examine infants' attention to face+voice displays differing by emotion (fear, sad, happy) and visual stimulus (dynamic versus static). Peripheral distracters were presented to measure attention disengagement. It was predicted that infants would look longer at and disengage more slowly from dynamic…
Integrated Emotion Processing in Infancy: Matching of Faces and Bodies
Accurate assessment of emotion requires the coordination of information from different sources such as faces, bodies, and voices. Adults readily integrate facial and bodily emotions. However, not much is known about the developmental origin of this capacity. Using a familiarization paired‐comparison procedure, 6.5‐month‐olds in the current experiments were familiarized to happy, angry, or sad emotions in faces or bodies and tested with the opposi…
Categorical Perception of Facial Emotions in Infancy
Categorical perception, indicated by superior discrimination between stimuli that cross categorical boundaries than between stimuli within a category, is an efficient manner of classification. The current study examined the development of categorical perception of emotional stimuli in infancy. We used morphed facial images to investigate whether infants find contrasts between emotional facial images that cross categorical boundaries to be more sa…
Average fixation duration in infancy: Stability and predictive utility
The current study examined the stability, consistency, and predictive utility of average fixation durations in infancy. In Study 1, infants' ( N = 80) average fixation duration when viewing social stimuli was found to show strong relative stability from 3.5 to 9 months of age. In Study 2, strong within‐infant consistency was found in 3.5‐month‐old infants' ( N = 73) average fixation durations to social and nonsocial stimuli. In Study 3, 3.5‐ to 9…
Body structure processing and attentional patterns in infancy and adulthood
Infants are sensitive to distortions to the global configurations of bodies by 3.5 months of age, suggesting an early onset of body knowledge. It is unclear, however, whether such sensitivity indicates knowledge of the location of specific body parts or solely reflects sensitivity to the overall gestalt of bodies. This study addressed this issue by examining whether, like adults, infants attend to specific locations where body parts have been reo…
Child and Animal Learning Development (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Face Recognition and Perception (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Anger (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Audiology (1 works)