Dr.Jenny Saffran is a University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor of Psychology.
She is an expert in language acquisition and early cognitive development, as well as music cognition research. Dr. Saffran believes that language acquisition is based on general cognitive processes like statistical learning, and he has done multiple empirical investigations to back up his claim.

She graduated from Brown University with a B.A. and the University of Rochester with a Ph.D. Saffran is the daughter of cognitive neuropsychologist Eleanor Saffran and is married to fellow psychologist Seth Pollak.