2026 Jenny R. Saffran: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	57	3944	3636	2207	1987	144	27854

Research.com Recognitions

2015 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Jenny R. Saffran is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on developmental and educational psychology within the broader field of psychology. They have contributed extensively to topics such as language development and disorders, child and animal learning development, autism spectrum disorder research, and reading and literacy development.

Their recent publications include the following:

Statistical Language Learning in Infancy (2020) in Child Development Perspectives
Acquiring Complex Communicative Systems: Statistical Learning of Language and Emotion (2022) in Topics in Cognitive Science
Predictive Language Processing in Young Autistic Children (2022) in Autism Research
Experience with Research Paradigms Relates to Infants' Direction of Preference (2020) in Infancy
Competing Perceptual Salience in a Visual Word Recognition Task Differentially Affects Children With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder (2020) in Autism Research

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Saffran include:

Susan Ellis Weismer
Martin Zettersten
Janine Mathée-Scott
Ron Pomper
Jan Edwards

Their work has been published predominantly in venues such as:

Autism Research
Infancy
Cognition
Developmental Science
Child Development Perspectives

Jenny R. Saffran's research spans multiple subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence, education, and experimental and cognitive psychology. Among the topics covered in their publications are hearing impairment and communication as well as cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills.

The scientist has been recognized as a fellow by several organizations, including:

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2015)
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2004)

Best Publications

Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Old Infants

Jenny R. Saffran;Richard N. Aslin;Elissa L. Newport

7218
Citations
Statistical learning of tone sequences by human infants and adults.

Jenny R Saffran;Elizabeth K Johnson;Richard N Aslin;Elissa L Newport

1825
Citations
WORD SEGMENTATION : THE ROLE OF DISTRIBUTIONAL CUES

Jenny R. Saffran;Elissa L. Newport;Richard N. Aslin

1811
Citations
Computation of Conditional Probability Statistics by 8-Month-Old Infants

Richard N. Aslin;Jenny R. Saffran;Elissa L. Newport

1507
Citations
Infant-Directed Speech Facilitates Word Segmentation

Erik D. Thiessen;Emily A. Hill;Jenny R. Saffran

884
Citations
Incidental Language Learning: Listening (and Learning) Out of the Corner of Your Ear

Jenny R. Saffran;Elissa L. Newport;Richard N. Aslin;Rachel A. Tunick

859
Citations
Statistical Language Learning: Mechanisms and Constraints

Jenny R. Saffran

835
Citations
When cues collide: use of stress and statistical cues to word boundaries by 7- to 9-month-old infants.

Erik D. Thiessen;Jenny R. Saffran

752
Citations
Can Infants Map Meaning to Newly Segmented Words?: Statistical Segmentation and Word Learning

Katharine Graf Estes;Julia L. Evans;Martha W. Alibali;Jenny R. Saffran

603
Citations
Statistical Learning in Children With Specific Language Impairment

Julia L. Evans;Jenny R. Saffran;Kathryn Robe-Torres

581
Citations
Statistical learning and language acquisition

Alexa R. Romberg;Jenny R. Saffran

579
Citations
Constraints on Statistical Language Learning

Jenny R Saffran

529
Citations
Music and Language: A Developmental Comparison

Erin Mcmullen;Jenny R. Saffran

507
Citations
Statistical Learning in a Natural Language by 8-Month-Old Infants

Bruna Pelucchi;Jessica F. Hay;Jenny R. Saffran

468
Citations
Infant Statistical Learning.

Jenny R. Saffran;Natasha Z. Kirkham

426
Citations
Absolute pitch in infant auditory learning: evidence for developmental reorganization.

Jenny R. Saffran;Gregory J. Griepentrog

400
Citations
Pattern induction by infant language learners.

Jenny R. Saffran;Erik D. Thiessen

398
Citations
Words in a sea of sounds: the output of infant statistical learning.

Jenny R Saffran

386
Citations
Emerging Integration of Sequential and Suprasegmental Information in Preverbal Speech Segmentation

James L. Morgan;Jenny R. Saffran

337
Citations
Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed-speech preference

Michael C. Frank;Katherine Jane Alcock;Natalia Arias-Trejo;Gisa Aschersleben

315
Citations
The Use of Predictive Dependencies in Language Learning

Jenny R. Saffran

308
Citations
From Syllables to Syntax: Multilevel Statistical Learning by 12-Month-Old Infants

Jenny R. Saffran;Diana P. Wilson

286
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Nancy Eisenberg Arizona State University

Susan Ellis Weismer University of Wisconsin–Madison

Judy S. DeLoache University of Virginia

Robert S. Siegler Columbia University

Mark S. Seidenberg University of Wisconsin–Madison

Elissa L. Newport Georgetown University

Richard N. Aslin Yale University

Dare A. Baldwin University of Oregon

Krista Byers-Heinlein Concordia University

Campbell Leaper University of California, Santa Cruz

External Links

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