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Kalanit Grill-Spector

Kalanit Grill-Spector

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Neuroscience

D-Index
60
Citations
24139
World Ranking
3758
National Ranking
1721

Kalanit Grill-Spector publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kalanit Grill-Spector sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 228 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Kalanit Grill-Spector D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kalanit Grill-Spector sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 60 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Kalanit Grill-Spector is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of neuroscience and medicine, with an emphasis on subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, computer vision and pattern recognition, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The main topics of their work cover various aspects of visual perception and processing mechanisms, neural dynamics and brain function, face recognition and perception, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, functional brain connectivity studies, advanced MRI techniques and applications, and neural and behavioral psychology studies.

Recent publications showcase a range of research contributions, including:

  • A Probabilistic Functional Atlas of Human Occipito-Temporal Visual Cortex (2020, Cerebral Cortex)
  • White matter myelination during early infancy is linked to spatial gradients and myelin content at birth (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Cortical recycling in high-level visual cortex during childhood development (2021, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • Differential spatial computations in ventral and lateral face-selective regions are scaffolded by structural connections (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Sulcal Depth in the Medial Ventral Temporal Cortex Predicts the Location of a Place-Selective Region in Macaques, Children, and Adults (2020, Cerebral Cortex)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Mareike Grotheer, Vaidehi Natu, Dawn Finzi, Jesse Gomez, and Holly Kular. Their work has been published predominantly in key venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Vision, Cerebral Cortex, Nature Communications, and the 2022 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience.

Kalanit Grill-Spector has also contributed to book publications, including the title Vision and Perception, published by Open Agenda Publishing eBooks in 2020.

Their contributions to the scientific community have been recognized with the award of Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2004.

Best Publications

  • Repetition and the brain: neural models of stimulus-specific effects

    Kalanit Grill-Spector;Richard Henson;Alex Martin

  • The lateral occipital complex and its role in object recognition.

    Kalanit Grill-Spector;Zoe Kourtzi;Nancy Kanwisher;Nancy Kanwisher

  • THE HUMAN VISUAL CORTEX

    Kalanit Grill-Spector;Rafael Malach

  • Differential Processing of Objects under Various Viewing Conditions in the Human Lateral Occipital Complex

    Kalanit Grill-Spector;Tammar Kushnir;Shimon Edelman;Galia Avidan

  • fMR-adaptation: a tool for studying the functional properties of human cortical neurons.

    Kalanit Grill-Spector;Rafael Malach

  • The fusiform face area subserves face perception, not generic within-category identification.

    Kalanit Grill-Spector;Nicholas Knouf;Nancy Kanwisher

  • The functional architecture of the ventral temporal cortex and its role in categorization.

    Kalanit Grill-Spector;Kevin S. Weiner

  • The neural basis of object perception

    Kalanit Grill-Spector

  • Visual Recognition As Soon as You Know It Is There, You Know What It Is

    Kalanit Grill-Spector;Nancy Kanwisher

  • The dynamics of object-selective activation correlate with recognition performance in humans.

    Kalanit Grill-Spector;Kalanit Grill-Spector;Tammar Kushnir;Talma Hendler;Rafael Malach

  • A sequence of object-processing stages revealed by fMRI in the human occipital lobe.

    Kalanit Grill-Spector;Tammar Kushnir;Talma Hendler;Shimon Edelman

  • Differential development of high-level visual cortex correlates with category-specific recognition memory

    Golijeh Golarai;Dara G Ghahremani;Dara G Ghahremani;S Whitfield-Gabrieli;S Whitfield-Gabrieli;Allan Reiss

  • Cue-invariant activation in object-related areas of the human occipital lobe.

    Kalanit Grill-Spector;Tamar Kushnir;Shimon Edelman;Yacov Itzchak

  • Electrical Stimulation of Human Fusiform Face-Selective Regions Distorts Face Perception

    Josef Parvizi;Corentin Jacques;Corentin Jacques;Brett L. Foster;Nathan Withoft

  • Apparent thinning of human visual cortex during childhood is associated with myelination

    Vaidehi S. Natu;Vaidehi S. Natu;Jesse Gomez;Michael Barnett;Brianna Jeska

  • High-resolution imaging reveals highly selective nonface clusters in the fusiform face area

    Kalanit Grill-Spector;Rory Sayres;David Ress

  • Sparsely-distributed organization of face and limb activations in human ventral temporal cortex.

    Kevin S. Weiner;Kalanit Grill-Spector

  • Global similarity and pattern separation in the human medial temporal lobe predict subsequent memory.

    Karen F. LaRocque;Mary E. Smith;Valerie A. Carr;Nathan Witthoft

  • Toward direct visualization of the internal shape representation space by fMRI

    Shimon Edelman;Kalanit Grill-Spector;Tammar Kushnir;Rafael Malach

  • The Functional Neuroanatomy of Human Face Perception

    Kalanit Grill-Spector;Kevin S. Weiner;Kendrick Kay;Jesse Gomez

  • The mid-fusiform sulcus: a landmark identifying both cytoarchitectonic and functional divisions of human ventral temporal cortex.

    Kevin S. Weiner;Golijeh Golarai;Julian Caspers;Miguel R. Chuapoco

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin S. Weiner
Kevin S. Weiner University of California, Berkeley
Katrin Amunts
Katrin Amunts Forschungszentrum Jülich
Karl Zilles
Karl Zilles Forschungszentrum Jülich
Kendrick Kay
Kendrick Kay University of Minnesota
Corentin Jacques
Corentin Jacques Université Catholique de Louvain
Rafael Malach
Rafael Malach Weizmann Institute of Science
Rainer Goebel
Rainer Goebel Maastricht University
Josef Parvizi
Josef Parvizi Stanford University
Shimon Edelman
Shimon Edelman Cornell University

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