Kalanit Grill-Spector

{{short description|American psychologist}}

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| fields = cognitive neuroscience developmental neuroscience vision

| workplaces = Weizmann Institute of Science, MIT, Stanford University

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| education = PhD

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| doctoral_advisor = Rafael Malach

| academic_advisors = Nancy Kanwisher

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| known_for = fMRI adaptation

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Kalanit Grill-Spector ({{langx|he|כלנית גריל-ספקטור}}) is a professor of Psychology at Stanford University and the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University. She is best known for developing fMRI adaptation,{{Cite journal|last1=Grill-Spector|first1=Kalanit|last2=Malach|first2=Rafael|date=2001|title=fMR-adaptation: a tool for studying the functional properties of human cortical neurons|journal=Acta Psychologica|language=en|volume=107|issue=1–3|pages=293–321|doi=10.1016/S0001-6918(01)00019-1|pmid=11388140}}{{cite journal |last1=Malach |first1=Rafael |title=Targeting the functional properties of cortical neurons using fMR-adaptation |journal=NeuroImage |date=August 2012 |volume=62 |issue=2 |pages=1163–1169 |doi=10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.01.002|pmid=22245340 |s2cid=2722579 }} a technique useful for studying the sensitivity of neurons in the brain to changes of a stimulus.