Jenny Saffran is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
She specializes in language acquisition and early cognitive development, and she also conducts research on music cognition.
[1] Saffran views language acquisition as based on general cognitive processes such as statistical learning, and has conducted numerous empirical studies that support this view.
Saffran is married to fellow psychologist Seth Pollak, and she is the daughter of cognitive neuropsychologist Eleanor Saffran.
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