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WIRED Magazine Features Trent’s New PNAS Paper
Trent and Dr. Bainbridge were interviewed and had their new PNAS paper, titled “Memory for artwork is predictable,” featured in WIRED Magazine’s Science section. The article, “Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder—but Memorability May Be Universal,” discusses the...
Trent’s New Paper in PNAS
Trent Davis, a recent UChicago graduate and our new lab manager, recently published a paper along with Dr. Bainbridge titled "Memory for artwork is predictable." Using over 4000 paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, their study finds that viewers are consistent...
Our lab wins an NSF EAGER award
Our lab won an NSF EAGER award with the Program on Perception, Action, and Cognition on characterizing the intrinsic memorability of voices. Stay tuned for our upcoming research done with this award!
Congrats to Sam Who Received an Undergraduate Research Grant
Congratulations to Sam Rosenthal, a rising 3rd-year Brain Bridge Lab undergraduate who recently received the Quad Summer Undergraduate Research Grant from UChicago! He will soon use the grant to work on his independent research project.
New Lab Manager
Trent Davis, a current senior undergraduate student from our lab, will become our new lab manager! He has won tons of awards during his undergrad here at UChicago. Here are some highlights of his achievements: President of Neuro Club Louis Sudler Prize in the...
Congrats to NSF Awardees
Congratulations to Cambria Revsine, who has been awarded the NSF GRFP in Cognitive Neuroscience, and Emma Megla, who has been awarded Honorable Mention for NSF in Cognitive Neuroscience!!!
Max Kramer’s New Paper in Science Advances
A recent paper authored by Max Kramer, Dr. Martin Hebart, Dr. Chris Baker, and Dr. Wilma A. Bainbridge, titled “The features underlying the memorability of objects,” investigates higher- and lower-level features that drive image memorability and suggests that...
Brain Bridge Lab @ VSS 2023
This year, the Brain Bridge Lab will be presenting 6 posters and 2 talks at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society! We’re really excited to present our research as a lab. Below are the details for all the presentations: See you on the sunny beaches of St....
Congratulations to Yuetong and Fiona on Accepting PhD Positions!
Congratulations to two of our current Master's students (in the Masters of Computational Social Sciences Program) on accepting offers to join PhD programs in the fall! Fiona Lee will be starting her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania with Dr. Sharon Thompson-Schill...
Dr. Bainbridge Interviewed by Science’s Podcast
Science’s podcast interviewed Dr. Bainbridge about her recent paper in Science Advances also authored by Max Kramer, Dr. Martin Hebart, and Dr. Chris Baker, titled “The features underlying the memorability of objects.” Have a listen to the podcast episode, “The value...