Kalanit Grill-Spector (Hebrew: כלנית גריל-ספקטור) is a professor of Psychology at Stanford University and the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University. She is best known for developing fMRI adaptation,[1][2] a technique useful for studying the sensitivity of neurons in the brain to changes of a stimulus.

Kalanit Grill-Spector
EducationPhD
Known forfMRI adaptation
Scientific career
Fieldscognitive neuroscience developmental neuroscience vision
InstitutionsWeizmann Institute of Science, MIT, Stanford University
Doctoral advisorRafael Malach
Other academic advisorsNancy Kanwisher

Life

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Grill-Spector studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev from 1987 to 1990. In 1994, she continued her studies at the Weizmann Institute of Science, where she gained a PhD in 1999. From 1999 to 2001 she worked as a postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, before she followed an invitation to Stanford University, where she teaches now.[3]

Achievements and awards

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Grill-Spector has received several fellowships including Human Sciences Frontier Fellowship, the Sloan Fellowship, and the Klingenstein Fellowship in Neuroscience.[4] She has also served as an Editor for the Journal of Vision (2008–2012)[5] and Neuropsychologia (2016–2018).

References

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  1. ^ Grill-Spector, Kalanit; Malach, Rafael (2001). "fMR-adaptation: a tool for studying the functional properties of human cortical neurons". Acta Psychologica. 107 (1–3): 293–321. doi:10.1016/S0001-6918(01)00019-1. PMID 11388140.
  2. ^ Malach, Rafael (August 2012). "Targeting the functional properties of cortical neurons using fMR-adaptation". NeuroImage. 62 (2): 1163–1169. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.01.002. PMID 22245340. S2CID 2722579.
  3. ^ Profile on Linked-in
  4. ^ "Kalanit Grill-Spector's Profile | Stanford Profiles". profiles.stanford.edu.
  5. ^ "Editorial Board | JOV | ARVO Journals". jov.arvojournals.org.
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