Postdoctoral position at McGill University - Sequence Production Lab
Richard Parncutt - "Pitch, tonality, and the missing fundamentals of music cognition"
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Jenny Saffran Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin
Department of PsychologyUniversity of Wisconsin-Madisson
1202 WEST JOHNSON ST
Office: 528 Psychology
MADISON , Wisconsin 53706-1611
Biography:
How do children acquire their native language? My research focuses on the kinds of learning abilities required to master the complexities of language. Three broad issues characterize my work. One line of research asks what kinds of learning emerge in infancy. A second line of research probes the biases that shape human learning abilities, and the relationship between these biases and the structure of human languages. A third issue concerns the extent to which the learning abilities underlying this process are specifically tailored for language acquisition. Related research concerns infant music perception, and the relationship between music and language learning.
