Jenny R. Saffran

Psychology · Social Sciences

61h-index23.3kcitations215works1.62yr avg
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Research Topics

Language Development and Disorders(117), Child and Animal Learning Development(87), Reading and Literacy Development(46), Early Childhood Education and Development(22), Phonetics and Phonology Research(21)

Publications214 total

The role of social group membership on the acquisition of linguistic variation
Open Science Framework·2026Open Access
A systematic review of statistical learning in autism spectrum disorder
Molecular Autism·2025Open Access
Active sampling helps children learn new words by tuning their curriculum to past experiences
2025Open Access
Interrogating Early Word Knowledge: Factors That Influence the Alignment Between Caregiver‐Report and Experimental Measures
Developmental Science·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Statistical learning: A core mechanism in a developmental hierarchy
Current Opinion in Neurobiology·2025Open Access
Development and validation of the NIH Baby Toolbox® language measures
Infant Behavior and Development·2025· 6 citedOpen Access
Environmental context scaffolds children's semantic representation of novel words
Cognition·2025
Object Functions and Words Reexamined: Toddlers’ Recognition of Function Depends on Object Type
Journal of Cognition and Development·2025Open Access
Role of statistical learning and prediction in auditory scene analysis
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America·2025
Prediction by Young Autistic Children from Visual and Spoken Input
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders·2024· 2 cited
The effect of volatility in linguistic input on prediction behavior in autistic toddlers
Autism Research·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Statistical Learning
MIT Press eBooks·2024Open Access
Limited evidence of test‐retest reliability in infant‐directed speech preference in a large preregistered infant experiment
Developmental Science·2024· 5 citedOpen Access
Becoming word meaning experts: Infants' processing of familiar words in the context of typical and atypical exemplars
Child Development·2024· 5 citedOpen Access
Toddlers' prior social experience with speakers influences their word learning
Infancy·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Early word learning is influenced by physical environments
Child Development·2023· 6 citedOpen Access
Word Learning in Deaf Adults Who Use Cochlear Implants: The Role of Talker Variability and Attention to the Mouth
Ear and Hearing·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
ManyBabies 5: A large-scale investigation of the proposed shift from familiarity preference to novelty preference in infant looking time
2023· 4 citedOpen Access
ManyBabies 5: A large-scale investigation of the proposed shift from familiarity preference to novelty preference in infant looking time
2023· 28 citedOpen Access
Limited evidence of test-retest reliability in infant-directed speech preference in a large pre-registered infant experiment
2022· 9 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Richard Ν. Aslin(5), Elissa L. Newport(5), Erik D. Thiessen(5), Jessica F. Hay(5), Bruna Pelucchi(4), Katharine Graf Estes(4), Michael J. Spivey(4), Julia L. Evans(2), Diana P. Wilson(2), Rebecca L. Seibel(2), Mark S. Seidenberg(2), James L. Morgan(2), Robert S. Siegler(2), Judy S. DeLoache(2), Nancy Eisenberg(2), Tianlin Wang(2), Casey Lew‐Williams(2), Elizabeth K. Johnson(1), Emily Hill(1), Rachel A. Tunick(1)