[4] She has also written on other subjects, including an article in the Huffington Post and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2010 about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

[5] Kanwisher once shaved her head while teaching a lecture on neuroanatomy to point out the functional regions of the brain so her students could visualize the concepts.

[10] In 2024, Kanwisher was one of three recipients of the Kavli Prize in neuroscience "for the discovery of a highly localized and specialized system for representation of faces in human and non-human primate neocortex".

[14] Kanwisher has training in cognitive psychology, which is investigating how the mind works by observing its outward behavior.

She also co-discovered the parahippocampal place area (PPA),[17] a region of the brain that recognizes environmental scenes.