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Emily Kubota @emilykubota.bsky.social · Mar 21

Oh no, that was an oversight! We’ll be sure to cite it in the future, thanks for bringing it to our attention.

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stanfordbrain.bsky.social @stanfordbrain.bsky.social · Mar 18

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.

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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 · Mar 17

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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Emily Kubota @emilykubota.bsky.social · Mar 17

However, we also found that white matter connections continue to develop from infancy to adulthood, suggesting that white matter connections have both innate organization and the capacity to change over development.

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Emily Kubota @emilykubota.bsky.social · Mar 17

We scanned infants using MRI during the first 6 months of life and found that white matter connections of high level visual cortex had a striking organization tied to cytoarchitecture from birth.

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Emily Kubota @emilykubota.bsky.social · Mar 17

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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