Alison Heck

Alison Heck, affiliated with University of Kentucky, contributes to developmental and cognitive psychology through research on infant emotion perception. Her work investigates how infants progress from basic discrimination to recognition of emotional cues in bodies and faces.

Key findings include evidence that 5-month-olds exhibit intermodal matching for upright body emotions, while younger infants rely on low-level stimulus features. This mirrors developmental patterns in facial emotion recognition.