Dr. Alison Heck

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Contact Information

Frost Building, 203
CPO 2125
Email: hecka@berea.edu
Phone: 859-985-3414

Spring 2022

Office Hours

Mon/Wed: 2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
In-person
Tue: 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
In-person

Please email to set up an appointment outside of office hours (virtual or in-person). If I am not logged on to Zoom, please send a quick email to let me know you are there.

Class Schedule

  • PSY 100 B (Tue/Thur: 10:00 am – 11:50 am)
  • PSY 207  (Mon/Wed: 4:00 pm – 5:50 pm)
  • PSY 217  (Mon/Wed: 12:40 pm – 2:30 pm)
Alison Heck

Degrees

  • B.S. in Psychology, Virginia Tech, 2008
  • M.S. in Developmental & Biological Psychology, Virginia Tech, 2012
  • Ph.D. in Developmental Science, Virginia Tech, 2015

Research Interests

  • Impact of social cues on infants’ and children’s cognitive development (e.g., language, attention, associative learning)
  • Socioemotional development in infancy and childhood (e.g., multimodal emotion processing)
  • Influence of parents on infant development (e.g., depression/anxiety symptoms and infants’ language development)
  • Eye-tracking across the life-span
  • Use of ecologically-valid stimuli in emotion and language research

Selected Publications

  • Heck, A., White, H., Jubran, R., & Bhatt, R.S. (in press). Emotions in infants. In G. L. Schiewer, J. Altaribba, & B. C. Ng (Eds.), Handbook on Language and Emotion. De Gruyter Mouton.
  • Heck, A., Chroust, A., White, H., Jubran, R., & Bhatt, R.S. (2018). Development of body emotion perception in infancy: From discrimination to recognition. Infant Behavior and Development, 50, 42-51. DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2017.10.007
  • Heck, A., Hock, A., White, H., Jubran, R., & Bhatt, R.S. (2017). Further evidence of early development of attention to dynamic facial emotions: Reply to Grossmann and Jessen. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 152, 155-162. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2016.08.006
  • Heck, A., Hock, A., White, H., Jubran, R., & Bhatt, R.S. (2016). The development of attention to dynamic facial emotions. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 147, 100-110. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2016.03.005
  • Heck, A.R., Panneton, R.K., & Mills-Smith, L. (2016). Bimodal dynamics of faces and voices influence older infants’ perception of emotion. Infancy, 21(4), 522-531. DOI: 10.111/infa.12121
  • Heck, A., White, H., Jubran, R., & Bhatt, R.S. Emotion perception in infants. Second draft under review. To appear in Schiewer, G.L., Altaribba, J., & Ng, B.C. (Ed.), Handbook on Language and Emotion. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton.