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Emily Kubota

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stanfordbrain.bsky.social @stanfordbrain.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

How do infant brains develop to recognize faces, words & objects? New research by Emily Kubota @emilykubota.bsky.social & Kalanit Grill-Spector @stanfordvpnl.bsky.social reveals key brain pathways are present from birth but also evolve with experience. 🔗 neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/bridgin...

Left: White matter connections of a face area measured with diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) in the same baby over 6 months illustrate both the innate and developing aspects of connections in the human brain. Right: A subset of connections of the face area colored by origin in the visual field (center: red; mid periphery: green; far periphery: blue) show striking orderly organization present in infancy. Image credit: Grill-Spector Lab, Stanford University.

Emily Kubota. Emily Kubota recently completed her doctoral research in the Grill-Spector lab in the Stanford Department of Psychology and previously participated in Wu Tsai Neuro’s Mind, Brain, Computation and Technology graduate training program.

Kalanit Grill-Spector. Kalanit Grill-Spector is the Susan S. and William H. Hindle Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, a professor in the Department of Psychology in H&S, and a Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute affiliate at Stanford University. In 2018, Grill-Spector, radiologist Jennifer McNab, computational neuroscientist Dan Yamins and colleagues launched the NeuroDevelopment Initiative, supported by Wu Tsai Neuro's Big Ideas in Neuroscience program. The initiative aimed to create a paradigm shift in developmental neuroscience by innovating new approaches to studying the earliest stages of human brain development.

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Emily Kubota @emilykubota.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The latest paper from my PhD is now out in Nature Human Behavior! rdcu.be/edRwQ

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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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