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Kalanit Grill-Spector is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University and a member of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute. Her research is focused on understanding the brain processes involved in the perception of visual information, utilizing functional imaging techniques to visualize living brain activity and understand the mechanisms that enable recognition of people, objects, and places. She has developed computational models and topographic deep neural networks to predict neural responses, elucidating the organized structure and function of the visual system. Additionally, Kalanit investigates the anatomical and functional changes in the brain from infancy through adulthood, researching how these changes relate to enhanced visual recognition abilities. She completed her PhD at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and was a postdoctoral fellow in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT before joining Stanford. Kalanit has received numerous awards, including the Human Sciences Frontier Fellowship and the Sloan Fellowship in Neuroscience. Her contributions include serving as editor for various renowned journals and leading several significant projects within the field of visual neuroscience.
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