Jenny R. Saffran

23.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
121 papers, 13.4k citations indexed

About

Jenny R. Saffran is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jenny R. Saffran has authored 121 papers receiving a total of 13.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 35 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 26 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Jenny R. Saffran's work include Language Development and Disorders (94 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (61 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (42 papers). Jenny R. Saffran is often cited by papers focused on Language Development and Disorders (94 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (61 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (42 papers). Jenny R. Saffran collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Canada. Jenny R. Saffran's co-authors include Elissa L. Newport, Richard Ν. Aslin, Erik D. Thiessen, Elizabeth K. Johnson, Alexa R. Romberg, Julia L. Evans, Jessica F. Hay, Bruna Pelucchi, Katharine Graf Estes and Emily Hill and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Jenny R. Saffran

119 papers receiving 12.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Old Infants

1996 3.4k citations Jenny R. Saffran et al. profile →
Statistical learning of tone sequences by human infants and adults

1999 880 citations Jenny R. Saffran et al. Cognition profile →
Word Segmentation: The Role of Distributional Cues

1996 794 citations Jenny R. Saffran et al. Journal of Memory and Language profile →
Computation of Conditional Probability Statistics by 8-Month-Old Infants

1998 711 citations Jenny R. Saffran et al. profile →
Infant Statistical Learning

2017 220 citations Jenny R. Saffran, Natasha Z. Kirkham Annual Review of Psychology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jenny R. Saffran United States	48	9.6k	5.6k	3.9k	2.4k	1.4k	121	13.4k
Elissa L. Newport United States	47	10.5k 1.1×	6.0k 1.1×	4.2k 1.1×	3.0k 1.3×	2.1k 1.6×	104	15.8k
Janet F. Werker Canada	72	11.8k 1.2×	5.7k 1.0×	8.6k 2.2×	1.3k 0.6×	684 0.5×	183	17.1k
Richard Ν. Aslin United States	74	12.9k 1.4×	10.4k 1.8×	7.8k 2.0×	3.2k 1.4×	1.6k 1.2×	242	22.4k
Morten H. Christiansen United States	51	5.8k 0.6×	4.4k 0.8×	3.1k 0.8×	2.6k 1.1×	2.5k 1.8×	223	11.0k
Jacques Mehler France	68	9.6k 1.0×	7.3k 1.3×	7.2k 1.9×	2.3k 1.0×	841 0.6×	159	16.6k
William D. Marslen‐Wilson United Kingdom	69	9.1k 1.0×	12.0k 2.1×	6.6k 1.7×	2.8k 1.2×	392 0.3×	169	16.6k
Peter W. Jusczyk United States	53	9.4k 1.0×	3.6k 0.6×	6.3k 1.6×	1.6k 0.7×	620 0.5×	117	12.1k
Emmanuel Dupoux France	50	4.0k 0.4×	4.1k 0.7×	3.8k 1.0×	2.5k 1.0×	302 0.2×	208	9.8k
Dennis Norris United Kingdom	48	4.9k 0.5×	6.0k 1.1×	5.9k 1.5×	2.5k 1.0×	211 0.2×	150	10.1k
Michael K. Tanenhaus United States	65	8.7k 0.9×	11.3k 2.0×	8.2k 2.1×	4.7k 2.0×	487 0.4×	198	17.2k

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Saffran, Jenny R., et al.. (2025). Interrogating Early Word Knowledge: Factors That Influence the Alignment Between Caregiver‐Report and Experimental Measures. Developmental Science. 29(1). e70088–e70088.

Saffran, Jenny R., et al.. (2024). Prediction by Young Autistic Children from Visual and Spoken Input. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 56(2). 574–586. 1 indexed citations

Schreiner, Melanie S., Martin Zettersten, Christina Bergmann, et al.. (2024). Limited evidence of test‐retest reliability in infant‐directed speech preference in a large preregistered infant experiment. Developmental Science. 27(6). e13551–e13551. 1 indexed citations

Bolt, Daniel M., et al.. (2024). The effect of volatility in linguistic input on prediction behavior in autistic toddlers. Autism Research. 17(11). 2305–2318. 1 indexed citations

Weismer, Susan Ellis & Jenny R. Saffran. (2022). Differences in Prediction May Underlie Language Disorder in Autism. Frontiers in Psychology. 13. 897187–897187. 9 indexed citations

Benitez, Viridiana L. & Jenny R. Saffran. (2021). Two for the price of one: Concurrent learning of words and phonotactic regularities from continuous speech. PLoS ONE. 16(6). e0253039–e0253039. 4 indexed citations

Saffran, Jenny R.. (2020). Statistical Language Learning in Infancy. Child Development Perspectives. 14(1). 49–54. 44 indexed citations

Benitez, Viridiana L., et al.. (2019). Statistical learning of multiple speech streams: A challenge for monolingual infants. Developmental Science. 23(2). e12896–e12896. 17 indexed citations

Zettersten, Martin, Erica H. Wojcik, Viridiana L. Benitez, & Jenny R. Saffran. (2017). The company objects keep: Linking referents together during cross-situational word learning. Journal of Memory and Language. 99. 62–73. 16 indexed citations

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Saffran, Jenny R. & Natasha Z. Kirkham. (2017). Infant Statistical Learning. Annual Review of Psychology. 69(1). 181–203. 220 indexed citations breakdown →

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Perry, Lynn K. & Jenny R. Saffran. (2016). Is a Pink Cow Still a Cow? Individual Differences in Toddlers' Vocabulary Knowledge and Lexical Representations. Cognitive Science. 41(4). 1090–1105. 23 indexed citations

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Cashon, Cara H., Oh‐Ryeong Ha, Katharine Graf Estes, Jenny R. Saffran, & Carolyn Β. Mervis. (2016). Infants with Williams syndrome detect statistical regularities in continuous speech. Cognition. 154. 165–168. 11 indexed citations

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Saffran, Jenny R.. (2014). Sounds and Meanings Working Together: Word Learning as a Collaborative Effort. Language Learning. 64(s2). 106–120. 11 indexed citations

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Romberg, Alexa R. & Jenny R. Saffran. (2013). Expectancy Learning from Probabilistic Input by Infants. Frontiers in Psychology. 3. 610–610. 24 indexed citations

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Willits, Jon, Mark S. Seidenberg, & Jenny R. Saffran. (2009). Verbs are lookING good in early language acquisition. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 31(31). 4 indexed citations

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Thiessen, Erik D. & Jenny R. Saffran. (2007). Learning to Learn: Infants’ Acquisition of Stress-Based Strategies for Word Segmentation. Language Learning and Development. 3(1). 73–100. 43 indexed citations

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Saffran, Jenny R., et al.. (2004). Changing the tune: the structure of the input affects infants’ use of absolute and relative pitch. Developmental Science. 8(1). 1–7. 64 indexed citations

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Saffran, Jenny R. & Erik D. Thiessen. (2003). Pattern induction by infant language learners.. Developmental Psychology. 39(3). 484–494. 188 indexed citations

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Saffran, Jenny R., Michelle M. Loman, & Rachel R.W. Robertson. (2001). Infant Long‐Term Memory for Music. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 930(1). 397–400. 4 indexed citations

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Saffran, Jenny R.. (2000). Non-Linguistic Constraints on the Acquisition of Phrase Structure. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 22(22). 1 indexed citations

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