Whitfield-Nakamura, R. led the 2039 protocol extension (Extended protocol modifications for large-scale cortical organoid electrophysiological constraint mapping) that forms the intermediate step between Sorokina et al. (2026) and Fennimore et al. (2045) in the organoid electrophysiology lineage. The 2039 protocol modifications are adopted directly by Cognitive Genesis Research for the computational constraint parameters used in the neural core’s architecture (Section 3.3).
The Fennimore et al. reference list is explicit about priority: Sorokina is cited as the primary source; Whitfield-Nakamura is cited as the intermediate protocol paper; the citation order is deliberately structured to make the lineage legible.