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Kevin S. Weiner is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of neuroscience, with a specific emphasis on cognitive neuroscience. Their work integrates topics such as functional brain connectivity studies, neural dynamics and brain function, memory and neural mechanisms, and advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications.

The scientist has contributed to understanding the structural and functional properties of the human brain, often investigating sulcal depth and its relationship to cognitive functions. Their research topics include visual perception and processing mechanisms, face recognition and perception, and neural and behavioral psychology studies.

Kevin S. Weiner has coauthored numerous papers with a range of researchers, including Ethan H. Willbrand, Willa I. Voorhies, Jacob A. Miller, Benjamin J. Parker, and Silvia A. Bunge. Collaborative efforts with these frequent coauthors have resulted in multiple research outputs exploring brain structure and function.

Publications featuring Kevin S. Weiner appear most often in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Brain Structure and Function
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • The FASEB Journal
  • Cerebral Cortex

Among recent papers, notable titles include:

  • Overlooked Tertiary Sulci Serve as a Meso-Scale Link between Microstructural and Functional Properties of Human Lateral Prefrontal Cortex, 2021, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Cognitive insights from tertiary sulci in prefrontal cortex, 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
  • Ultra-high-resolution fMRI of Human Ventral Temporal Cortex Reveals Differential Representation of Categories and Domains, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Sulcal depth in prefrontal cortex: a novel predictor of working memory performance, 2022, Cerebral Cortex

The primary fields of study for Kevin S. Weiner encompass neuroscience broadly, with subfields including cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, experimental and cognitive psychology, developmental and educational psychology, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

Best Publications

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

    Kalanit Grill-Spector;Kevin S. Weiner

  • The anatomical and functional specialization of the fusiform gyrus

    Kevin S. Weiner;Karl Zilles

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

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

  • Neural Representations of Faces and Body Parts in Macaque and Human Cortex: A Comparative fMRI Study

    Mark A. Pinsk;Michael Arcaro;Kevin S. Weiner;Kevin S. Weiner;Jan F. Kalkus

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

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

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

    Kevin S. Weiner;Kalanit Grill-Spector

  • The Functional Neuroanatomy of Human Face Perception

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

  • The vertical occipital fasciculus: A century of controversy resolved by in vivo measurements

    Jason D. Yeatman;Jason D. Yeatman;Kevin S. Weiner;Franco Pestilli;Ariel Rokem

  • 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

  • Neural representations of faces and limbs neighbor in human high-level visual cortex: evidence for a new organization principle

    Kevin S. Weiner;Kalanit Grill-Spector

  • Topographic maps in human frontal cortex revealed in memory-guided saccade and spatial working-memory tasks

    Sabine Kastner;Kevin DeSimone;Christina S. Konen;Sara M. Szczepanski

  • Attention Reduces Spatial Uncertainty in Human Ventral Temporal Cortex

    Kendrick N. Kay;Kevin S. Weiner;Kalanit Grill-Spector

  • Electrical Stimulation of the Left and Right Human Fusiform Gyrus Causes Different Effects in Conscious Face Perception

    Vinitha Rangarajan;Dora Hermes;Brett L. Foster;Kevin S. Weiner

  • Temporal Processing Capacity in High-Level Visual Cortex Is Domain Specific.

    Anthony Stigliani;Kevin S. Weiner;Kalanit Grill-Spector

  • Functional Heterogeneity in Posterior Parietal Cortex Across Attention and Episodic Memory Retrieval

    J. Benjamin Hutchinson;Melina R. Uncapher;Kevin S. Weiner;David W. Bressler

  • Not one extrastriate body area: Using anatomical landmarks, hMT+, and visual field maps to parcellate limb-selective activations in human lateral occipitotemporal cortex

    Kevin S. Weiner;Kalanit Grill-Spector

  • Microstructural proliferation in human cortex is coupled with the development of face processing

    Jesse Gomez;Michael A. Barnett;Vaidehi Natu;Aviv Mezer

  • The improbable simplicity of the fusiform face area.

    Kevin S. Weiner;Kalanit Grill-Spector

  • fMRI-Adaptation and Category Selectivity in Human Ventral Temporal Cortex: Regional Differences Across Time Scales

    Kevin S. Weiner;Rory Sayres;Joakim Vinberg;Kalanit Grill-Spector

  • Two New Cytoarchitectonic Areas on the Human Mid-Fusiform Gyrus

    Simon Lorenz;Kevin S. Weiner;Julian Caspers;Julian Caspers;Hartmut Mohlberg

  • Synchrony upon repetition: One or multiple neural mechanisms?

    Kevin S. Weiner;Kalanit Grill-Spector

Frequent Co-Authors

Kalanit Grill-Spector
Kalanit Grill-Spector Stanford University
Karl Zilles
Karl Zilles Forschungszentrum Jülich
Katrin Amunts
Katrin Amunts Forschungszentrum Jülich
Kendrick Kay
Kendrick Kay University of Minnesota
Corentin Jacques
Corentin Jacques Université Catholique de Louvain
Silvia A. Bunge
Silvia A. Bunge University of California, Berkeley
Brian A. Wandell
Brian A. Wandell Stanford University
Mark D'Esposito
Mark D'Esposito University of California, Berkeley
Josef Parvizi
Josef Parvizi Stanford University
Nikos K. Logothetis
Nikos K. Logothetis Chinese Academy of Sciences

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