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Kalanit Grill-Spector
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| כלנית גריל-ספקטור | |
| Education | PhD |
| Known for | fMRI adaptation (a brain scanning technique) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | cognitive neuroscience (how the brain thinks), developmental neuroscience (how the brain grows), vision (how we see) |
| Institutions | Weizmann Institute of Science, MIT, Stanford University |
| Doctoral advisor | Rafael Malach |
| Other academic advisors | Nancy Kanwisher |
Kalanit Grill-Spector (Hebrew: כלנית גריל-ספקטור) is a professor of Psychology at Stanford University. She also works at the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University. She is well known for creating a special method called fMRI adaptation. This method helps scientists study how brain cells react to changes in what we see or hear.
Her Journey in Science
Kalanit Grill-Spector started her studies in 1987. She learned about Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. In 1994, she continued her learning at the Weizmann Institute of Science. There, she earned her PhD in 1999. A PhD is a very high university degree.
After her PhD, she worked as a postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1999 to 2001. A postdoc is a researcher who has finished their PhD and is gaining more experience. Later, she was invited to teach at Stanford University, where she works today.
What She's Achieved
Kalanit Grill-Spector has received many important awards and honors. These include the Human Sciences Frontier Fellowship, the Sloan Fellowship, and the Klingenstein Fellowship in Neuroscience. These awards help scientists do their research.
She also helped edit important science magazines. She was an editor for the Journal of Vision from 2008 to 2012. Then, she was an editor for Neuropsychologia from 2016 to 2018. This means she helped decide which scientific papers were good enough to be published.
