Jenny Saffran, PhD, named Distinguished
Professor of Psychology
(From a news release by Barbara Wolff)
University Communications
Posted: June 17, 2006
Jenny Saffran
| In a recent announcement by the UW Board of Regents,
Jenny Saffran, PhD, was awarded a named professorship, along with eight other
faculty. Saffran is a professor of psychology and the coordinator of
the Communication and Cognitive Sciences Group at the Waisman Center. Saffran's
research focuses on how infants acquire their native language: the kinds of
learning abilities required to master linguistic complexities. To make that
inquiry she investigates what kinds of learning occur in infancy, biases
that shape human learning abilities and the relationship between these
biases and language. In 2000 she received a Presidential Early Career Award
for Scientists and Engineers from President Clinton at a White House
ceremony.
Link:
Infant Learning Lab
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