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Sex-Specific Scanning in Infancy: Developmental Changes in the Use of ...

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology (2019)

Hannah White, Rachel Jubran, Alison Heck, Alyson Chroust, et al.

The current investigation sought to differentiate between contrasting perspectives of body knowledge development by determining whether infants’ adult-like scanning of ...

Experimental Evidence of Structural Representation of Hands in Early Infancy

International Journal of Behavioral Development (2018)

Rachel Jubran, Hannah White, Alyson Chroust, Alison Heck, et al.

Hands convey important social information, such as an individual’s emotions, goals, and desires, are used to direct attention through pointing, ...

The Role of Shape Recognition in Figure/Ground Perception in ...

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (2018)

Hannah White, Rachel Jubran, Alison Heck, Alyson Chroust, et al.

In this study we sought to determine whether infants, like adults, utilize previous experience to guide figure/ground processing. After familiarization ...

Development of Body Emotion Perception in Infancy: From Discrimination to ...

Infant Behavior and Development (2018)

Alison Heck, Alyson Chroust, Hannah White, Rachel Jubran, et al.

Research suggests that infants progress from discrimination to recognition of emotions in faces during the first half year of life. ...

The Effects of a Comprehensive Reading Program on Reading Outcomes ...

Journal of Learning Disabilities (2017)

Alyson J Hock, Michael F Hock, Irma F Brasseur-Hock and Brenda Duvel

Reading achievement scores for adolescents with disabilities are markedly lower than the scores of adolescents without disabilities. For example, 62% ...

Further Evidence of Early Development of Attention to Dynamic Facial ...

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology (2017)

Alison Heck, Alyson J. Hock, Hannah White, Rachel Jubran, et al.

Adults exhibit enhanced attention to negative emotions like fear, which is thought to be an adaptive reaction to emotional information. ...

Integrated Emotion Processing in Infancy: Matching of Faces and Bodies

Alyson J. Hock, Leah Oberst, Rachel Jubran, Hannah White, et al.

Accurate assessment of emotion requires the coordination of information from different sources such as faces, bodies, and voices. Adults readily ...

Perceptual Learning and Face Processing in Infancy

Developmental Psychobiology (2016)

Ashley Galati, Alyson J. Hock and Ramesh S. Bhatt

Configural information (spacing between features) contributes to face-processing expertise in adulthood. We examined whether infants can be “trained” to process ...

The Development of Attention to Dynamic Facial Emotions

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology (2016)

Alison Heck, Alyson J. Hock, Hannah White, Rachel Jubran, et al.

Appropriate processing of emotions is paramount for successful social functioning. Adults’ enhanced attention to negative emotions such as fear is ...

The Whole Picture: Holistic Body Posture Recognition in Infancy

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (2016)

Alyson J. Hock, Hannah White, Rachel Jubran and Ramesh S. Bhatt

Holistic processing is tied to expertise and is characteristic of face and body perception by adults. Infants process faces holistically, ...

The Development of Body Structure Knowledge in Infancy

Child Development Perspectives (2016)

Ramesh S. Bhatt, Alyson J. Hock, Hannah White, Rachel Jubran, et al.

Although we know much about the development of face processing, we know considerably less about the development of body knowledge—despite ...

The Development of Sex Category Representation in Infancy: Matching Of ...

Developmental Psychology (2015)

Alyson J. Chroust, Ashley Kangas, Nicole Zieber and Ramesh S. Bhatt

Sex is a significant social category, and adults derive information about it from both faces and bodies. Research indicates that ...

Body Structure Perception in Infancy

Nicole Zieber, Ashley Kangas, Alyson J. Hock and Ramesh S. Bhatt

Structural cues, such as the relative size and arrangement of parts, are key aspects of adults' representation of human bodies, ...

The Development of Intermodal Emotion Perception from Bodies and Voices

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology (2014)

Alyson J. Hock, Nicole Zieber, Ashley Kangas and Ramesh S. Bhatt

Even in the absence of facial information, adults are able to efficiently extract emotions from bodies and voices. Although prior ...

Infants' Perception of Emotion From Body Movements

Child Development (2014)

Nicole Zieber, Ashley Kangas, Alyson J. Hock and Ramesh S. Bhatt

Adults recognize emotions conveyed by bodies with comparable accuracy to facial emotions. However, no prior study has explored infants' perception ...

Perceptual Specialization and Configural Face Processing in Infancy

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology (2013)

Nicole Zieber, Ashley Kangas, Alyson J. Hock, Angela Hayden, et al.

Adults’ face processing expertise includes sensitivity to second-order configural information (spatial relations among features such as distance between eyes). Prior ...

The Development of Structural and Functional Knowledge about Bodies in ...

The Society of Research in Child Development (2017)

Alyson J. Hock, Ramesh S. Bhatt, Hannah White, Rachel Jubran, et al.

Visual Scanning of Body Emotions in Infancy

The Society for Research in Child Development (2017)

Alyson J. Hock and Ramesh S. Bhatt

Attraction of Infants' Attention by Emotional Body Stimuli

The International Congress on Infant Studies (2016)

Alyson Hock, Rachel Jubran, Alison Heck and Ramesh S. Bhatt

Categorical Perception of Species in Infancy

The International Congress on Infant Studies (2016)

Alyson Hock, Hannah White, Rachel Jubran, Alison Heck, et al.

Configural Face Processing in Newborn Infants

The International Congress on Infant Studies (2016)

Alyson Hock, Rachel Jubran, Hannah White and Ramesh S. Bhatt

Development of Body Representation in Infancy: Scanning of Specific Body ...

The Society for Research in Child Development (2015)

Alyson Hock, Hannah White, Rachel Jubran and Ramesh S. Bhatt

Infants' Attention to Emotion in Bodies

The Society for Research in Child Development (2015)

Alyson Hock, Rachel Jubran, Hannah White and Ramesh S. Bhatt

Matching of Facial and Body Emotion Information in Infancy

The International Congress on Infant Studies (2014)

Alyson Hock, Leah Oberst and Ramesh S. Bhatt

Perceptual Learning and Face Processing in Infancy

The International Congress on Infant Studies (2014)

Alyson Hock, Ramesh S. Bhatt, Ashley Kangas and Leah Oberst