Jenny Saffran

Jenny Saffran

University of Wisconsin-Madison

H-index: 58

North America-United States

About Jenny Saffran

Jenny Saffran, With an exceptional h-index of 58 and a recent h-index of 45 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializes in the field of Infant language development, psycholinguistics, music cognition, cognitive development.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Word Learning in Deaf Adults Who Use Cochlear Implants: The Role of Talker Variability and Attention to the Mouth

Early word learning is influenced by physical environments

ManyBabies 5: A large-scale investigation of the proposed shift from familiarity preference to novelty preference in infant looking time

Valid points and looks: Reliability and validity go hand‐in‐hand when improving infant methods

Becoming word meaning experts: Infants’ processing of familiar words in the context of typical and atypical exemplars

Acquiring complex communicative systems: Statistical learning of language and emotion

Differences in prediction may underlie language disorder in autism

Predictive language processing in young autistic children

Jenny Saffran Information

University

Position

Professor of Psychology

Citations(all)

27971

Citations(since 2020)

8795

Cited By

22417

hIndex(all)

58

hIndex(since 2020)

45

i10Index(all)

100

i10Index(since 2020)

85

Email

University Profile Page

University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Jenny Saffran Skills & Research Interests

Infant language development

psycholinguistics

music cognition

cognitive development

Top articles of Jenny Saffran

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Word Learning in Deaf Adults Who Use Cochlear Implants: The Role of Talker Variability and Attention to the Mouth

Ear and Hearing

Jasenia Hartman

Jenny Saffran

Ruth Litovsky

2024/3/1

Early word learning is influenced by physical environments

Child Development

Elise Breitfeld

Jenny R Saffran

2023/11/29

ManyBabies 5: A large-scale investigation of the proposed shift from familiarity preference to novelty preference in infant looking time

Jessica Kosie

Martin Zettersten

Rana Abu-Zhaya

Dima Amso

Mireille Babineau

...

2023/1/10

Valid points and looks: Reliability and validity go hand‐in‐hand when improving infant methods

Infant and Child Development

Martin Zettersten

Ron Pomper

Jenny Saffran

2022/9

Becoming word meaning experts: Infants’ processing of familiar words in the context of typical and atypical exemplars

Martin Zettersten

Haley Weaver

Jenny Saffran

2022/1

Acquiring complex communicative systems: Statistical learning of language and emotion

Ashley L Ruba

Seth D Pollak

Jenny R Saffran

2022/7

Differences in prediction may underlie language disorder in autism

Frontiers in Psychology

Susan Ellis Weismer

Jenny R Saffran

2022/6/9

Predictive language processing in young autistic children

Autism Research

Kathryn E Prescott

Janine Mathée‐Scott

Tracy Reuter

Jan Edwards

Jenny Saffran

...

2022/5

Limited evidence of test-retest reliability in infant-directed speech preference in a large pre-registered infant experiment

Melanie S Schreiner

Martin Zettersten

Christina Bergmann

Michael C Frank

Tom Fritzsche

...

2022/12/22

Change is hard: Individual differences in children’s lexical processing and executive functions after a shift in dimensions

Language Learning and Development

Ron Pomper

Margarita Kaushanskaya

Jenny Saffran

2022/4/3

Use of mutual exclusivity and its relationship to language ability in toddlers with autism spectrum disorder

Journal of autism and developmental disorders

Janine Mathée-Scott

Caroline Larson

Courtney Venker

Ron Pomper

Jan Edwards

...

2022/10/1

Role of speaker gender in toddler lexical processing

Infancy

Desia Bacon

Jenny Saffran

2022/3

Experience with research paradigms relates to infants’ direction of preference

Infancy

Chiara Santolin

Gonzalo Garcia‐Castro

Martin Zettersten

Nuria Sebastian‐Galles

Jenny R Saffran

2021/1

A framework for online experimenter-moderated looking-time studies assessing infants’ linguistic knowledge

Frontiers in psychology

Desia Bacon

Haley Weaver

Jenny Saffran

2021/9/24

Coarticulation facilitates lexical processing for toddlers with autism

Cognition

Ron Pomper

Susan Ellis Weismer

Jenny Saffran

Jan Edwards

2021/9/1

Two for the price of one: Concurrent learning of words and phonotactic regularities from continuous speech

PloS one

Viridiana L Benitez

Jenny R Saffran

2021/6/11

Competing perceptual salience in a visual word recognition task differentially affects children with and without autism spectrum disorder

Autism Research

Courtney E Venker

Janine Mathée

Dominik Neumann

Jan Edwards

Jenny Saffran

...

2021/6

How children develop

Judy DeLoache

Nancy Eisenberg

RS Siegler

2017

Tuning in to non-adjacencies: Exposure to learnable patterns supports discovering otherwise difficult structures

Cognition

Martin Zettersten

Christine E Potter

Jenny R Saffran

2020/9/1

Comparing automatic eye tracking and manual gaze coding methods in young children with autism spectrum disorder

Autism Research

Courtney E Venker

Ron Pomper

Tristan Mahr

Jan Edwards

Jenny Saffran

...

2020/2

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