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Subtle interactions that demonstrate power, both verbal and nonverbal, take place in a child’s environment every day, and one UW researcher wants to know if children are actually paying attention. Through scripted scenarios geared to depict social hierarchy, assistant professor and Waisman Center investigator Kristin Shutts explored how children are sensitive to their social environment …
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Saffran is an investigator at the Waisman Center and a Distinguished Professor of Psychology in the College of Letters & Science. Her lab, the Infant Learning Lab, has an international reputation in the area of developmental psychology and she has received a number of major awards, including several early career awards from the American Psychological Association.
As many parents discover, the minds of young children absorb information like sponges and their brain development seems to occur at incredible speed.
By the time a baby is 10 months old, he or she typically will have heard about a million sentences and many millions more words.
Infant Learning Lab researchers have recently focused on learning more about people with delayed language comprehension by observing learning methods used by children developing normally and children experiencing language delays.
A child's first word is a special moment, their eyes widening in curiosity, one chubby finger pointing to an object in sudden recognition as "juice" or "train."
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.
How babies learn language is a question Jenny Saffran has spent the early part of her research career investigating.
You may not know it, but you took a course in linguistics as a baby.
