Stanford Vision and Perception Neuroscience Lab
@stanfordvpnl.bsky.social
Our research utilizes multimodal imaging, computational modeling, and behavioral measurements to investigate human visual cortex. PI: Dr. Kalanit Grill-Spector. More at: http://vpnl.stanford.edu/#/
Excited to present soon @cogcompneuro.bsky.social #CCN2026! Come to my talk at 2:35 pm learn about children and teens’ visual experience in natural environments outside of traditional lab settings (“visual diet”) using a new, large-scale, egocentric scene and mobile eye-tracking data 🤓
Stanford Vision and Perception Neuroscience Lab@stanfordvpnl.bsky.social · last mo.VPNL is at #CCN2026 !! Check out our lab members' presentations this week :)
Congratulations to our recent grads! To Dr. Clara Bacmeister for her PhD in Neuroscience where she discovered how visual cortex myelinated over development.
How can childhood experiences (and Pokémon) reorganize the brain? Neuroscientist Kalanit Grill-Spector @kalanitgs.bsky.social joins us to discuss how childhood visual experiences, like words, faces, and video games, shape how we see the world as adults. neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/how-chi...
Be sure to check out our lab's presentations and posters at VSS!
Kevin Weiner, an alumnus of the lab, explains how Pokémon has helped us understand the organization of the visual cortex. Check it out in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How the Pokémon franchise has helped to shape neuroscience
Letter to the Editor
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🚨 Jewelia’s new preprint! We report the first pRF mapping in teens + reveal functional fingerprints of category regions in high-level visual cortex. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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NEW EPISODE!! 💫 (and the first in our new series, Psychologist in the Wild) Elizabeth @imelizabeth.bsky.social chats with Dr. Dawn Finzi on her scientific journey, from researching human visual perception to becoming a Machine Learning Engineer! LISTEN NOW🎧: open.spotify.com/episode/1TTH...
159 - Dawn Finzi: From Vision Neuroscience to ML Engineering (Psychologist in the Wild Series)
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Curious how infant brains fold? I’m excited to share our new study spearheaded by Sarah Tung and Vaidehi Natu now on bioRxiv! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Sarah and Vaidehi examined how the grooves of the brain (sulci) develop in individual infant’s brain during the first year of life.
How infant brains fold: Sulcal deepening is linked to development of sulcal span, thickness, curvature, and microstructure
Cortical folding begins in utero as sulci emerge and continues postnatally as sulci deepen. However, the timeline and mechanisms underlying postnatal sulcal development remain unknown. Using structura...
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Excited to share on my first post on Bluesky our new paper in NHB examine the innate and developing aspects of the wiring of the visual system. Congratulations to @emilykubota.bsky.social and the baby MRI team on this important work
Emily Kubota@emilykubota.bsky.social · last yr.The latest paper from my PhD is now out in Nature Human Behavior! rdcu.be/edRwQ
Check out Nicolas Weiler’s article for Stanford Neurosciences on how our work is bridging nature and nurture!
Bridging Nature and Nurture: Study reveals brain's flexible foundation from
By studying never-before-seen details of brain connectivity in human infants, researchers at the Wu Tsai
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The latest paper from my PhD is now out in Nature Human Behavior! rdcu.be/edRwQ
White matter connections of human ventral temporal cortex are organized by cytoarchitecture, eccentricity and category-selectivity from birth
Nature Human Behaviour - Kubota et al. find that white matter connections of ventral temporal cortex are innately organized by cytoarchitecture, category and eccentricity from birth, and also...
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