Publications

Preprints

  1. Oyindamola Ogunlade, Jesse Gomez. Prolonged development of tonotopic tuning in human auditory cortex bioRxiv preprint.

  2. Edan Daniel-Hertz, Jesse Gomez. Deafness and sign language experience shift visual category representations bioRxiv preprint.

  3. Priscilla Louis, Jewelia K. Yao, Zachariya Yazdani, Ruggaya Musa, Jesse Gomez. Protracted functional and structural reorganization of human prefrontal cortex supports lateralized category geometries bioRxiv preprint.

  4. Omar Singleton, Jesse Gomez. Non-uniform structural development across human thalamus aligns with risk zones for schizophrenia in adulthood (2026) bioRxiv preprint.

  5. Anna Williams, Patricia Hoyos, Jesse Gomez. Sulcal pleating captures functional boundaries of the human dorsal visual stream (2026) bioRxiv preprint.

  6. Oier Pastor-Alonso, Matthew Heffel, Mohammad Baig, Jasmine Harris, Susana González-Granero, Siqian Li, Sol Beccari, Julia Chu, Hannah Lambin, I-ling Lu, Matthew Varughese, Andrew Cheng, Jessica, Le, Mohini Bhade, JaeYeon Kim, Arantxa Cebrian-Silla, Isabel Torres-Cuevas, Kurtis Auguste, Eric Huang, Arturu Alvarez-Buylla, Jesse Gomez, José Manuel Garcia-Verdugo, Chongyuan Luo, Mercedes Paredes. Organization and Progression of Neural Progenitor Cells in the Developing Human Dentate Gyrus (2026) bioRxiv preprint.

2026

  1. Federico d’Oleire Uquillas, Esra Sefik, Jakob Seidlitz, Edan Daniel Hertz, Rafael Romero-Garcia, Varun Warrier, Richard A.I. Bethlehem, Aaron F. Alexander-Bloch, Jonathan D. Cohen, Jorge Sepulcre, Samuel S.-H. Wang, Jesse Gomez. Cerebellar aging is spatially heterogeneous and supports cognitive resilience in later life (2026) Nature Neuroscience.

2025

  1. Daniel Hertz, E., Yao, J. K., Gregorek, S., Hoyos, P. M., Gomez, J., An eccentricity gradient reversal across high-level visual cortex (2025) Journal of Neuroscience.

2024

  1. Uquillas, F., Sefik, E., Li, B.,…Wang, S. S.-H., Gomez, J., Multimodal evidence for cerebellar influence on cortical development in autism: structural growth amidst functional disruption (2024) Molecular Psychiatry.

  2. Chen, X., Liu, X., Hoyos, P. M., Daniel-Hertz, E., Yao, J. K., Zhen, Z., Gomez, J., Distinct gradients of cortical architecture capture visual representations and behavior across the lifespan (2024) eLife.

2023

  1. Himmelberg, M., Tuncok, E., Gomez, J., Grill-Spector, K., Carrasco, M., Winawer, J. Comparing retinotopic maps of children and adults reveals a late-stage change in how V1 samples the visual field (2023) Nature Communications.

2022

  1. Liu, X., d’Oleire Uquillas, F., Viaene, A. N., Zhen, Z., Gomez, J. A multifaceted gradient in human cerebellum of structural and functional development (2022) Nature Neuroscience.

2021

  1. Nordt, M., Gomez, J., Natu, V., Rezai, A., Finzi, D., Kular, H., Grill-Spector, K. Cortical recycling in high-level visual cortex during childhood development (2021) Nature Human Behavior.

  2. Gomez, J., Zhen, Z., Weiner, K. S. The relationship between transcription and eccentricity in human V1 (2021) Brain Structure & Function.

  3. Weiner, K. S., Gomez, J. Third Visual Pathway: Anatomy and Cognition across Species (2021) Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

  4. Finzi, D., Gomez, J., Nordt, M., Rezai, A., Poltoratski, S., Grill-Spector, K. Differential spatial computations in ventral and lateral face-selective regions are scaffolded by structural connections (2021) Nature Communications.

2019

  1. Natu, V., Gomez, J., Barnett, M., Jeska, B., Kirilina, E., Jaeger, C., Zhen, Z., Cox, S., Weiner, K. S., Weiskopf, N. Grill-Spector K. Apparent thinning of human visual cortex during childhood is associated with myelination (2019) PNAS.

  2. Gomez, J., Barnett, M., Grill-Spector, K. Extensive childhood experience with Pokemon suggests eccentricity drives organization of visual cortex (2019) Nature Human Behavior.

  3. Gomez, J., Zhen, Z., Weiner, K. S. Human visual cortex is organized along two genetically opposed gradients with unique developmental and evolutionary origins (2019) PLOS Biology.

2018

  1. Gomez, J., Drain, A., Jeska, B., Barnett, M., Grill-Spector, K. Development of population receptive fields in the lateral visual stream improves spatial coding (2018) NeuroImage.

  2. Gomez, J., Natu, V., Jeska, B., Barnett, M., Grill-Spector, K. Development differentially sculpts receptive fields across early and high-level visual cortex (2018) Nature Communications.

2017

  1. Gomez, J., Barnett, M., Natu, V., Mezer, A., Palomero-Gallagher, N., Weiner, K. S., Amunts, K., Zilles, K., Grill-Spector, K. Microstructural proliferation in human cortex is couple with the development of face processing (2017) Science.

  2. Weiner, K. S., Barnett, M., Witthoft, N., Golarai, G., Stigliani, A., Kay, K., Gomez, J., Natu, V., Amunts, K., Zilles, K., Grill-Spector, K. Defining the most probable location of the parahippocampal place area using cortex-based alignment and cross-validation (2017) NeuroImage.

  3. Grill-Spector, K., Weiner, K. S., Gomez, J., Stigliani, A, Natu, V. The functional neuroanatomy of face perception: From brain measurements to deep neural networks (2017) NeuroImage.

2016

  1. Natu, V., Barnett, M., Hartley, J., Gomez, J., Stigliani, A., Grill-Spector, K. Development of neural sensitivity to face identity correlates with perceptual discriminability (2016) The Journal of Neuroscience.

  2. Weiner, K.S., Jonas, J., Gomez, J., Maillard, L., Brissart, H., Hossu, G., Jacques, C., Loftus, D., Colnat-Coulbois, S., Stigliani, A., Barnett, M., Grill-Spector, K., Rossion, B. (2016) The Journal of Neuroscience.

  3. Grill-Spector, K., Weiner, K. S., Kay, K., Gomez, J. The functional neuroanatomy of face perception (2016) Annual Review of Vision Science.

2015 and beyond

  1. Gomez, J., Pestilli, F., Functionally defined white matter reveals segregated pathways in human ventral temporal cortex associated with category-specific processing (2015) Neuron.

  2. Dalrymple, K., Gomez, J., Duchaine, B. (2012) Journal of Vision.


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