Kalanit Grill-Spector

Kalanit Grill-Spector is an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, Stanford University. She holds a dual appointment at the Neuroscience Institute and teaches courses in perception, computational neuroimaging, cortical plasticity, and graduate research. Her research focuses on visual cortex organization, developmental myelination, category representations, and computational modeling of neural dynamics.

• HSFP Long Term Fellowship
• Sloan Research Fellowship in Neuroscience
• Klingenstein Fellowship in Neuroscience

Her recent work explores spatiotemporal population receptive fields, white matter connectivity, and microstructural growth in visual cortex. Studies highlight developmental shifts in category selectivity, cortical folding, and the interplay between myelination and cognitive specialization. She also investigates emoji vs. text processing in OTS-words regions and methodological advancements in MR fingerprinting for quantitative neuroimaging.