News
Our Research in Vox!
In the Memory Issue of the Highlight, a Vox publication, writer Brian Resnick interviews Dr. Wilma Bainbridge for an article titled 'Why do we remember what we remember?'. The article is an excellent overview of on the emerging field of memorability (i.e.,the study of...
Dr. Bainbridge’s First Book!
Dr. Bainbridge's first book "Human Perception of Visual Information" has been released! This book provides insight into visual perception by examining it from two complementary fields: computer vision and psychology. Together with fellow editors Drs. Bogdan Ionescu...
Object and Spatial Detail in Memory Drawings from Similar and Different Scenes: a New Paper in Memory
Elizabeth Hall (UC Davis), Dr. Wilma Bainbridge, and Dr. Chris Baker (NIMH) have been examining the effect of similar versus distinct scenes on memory for object and spatial detail. Previous studies show that we can draw scenes from memory with remarkable accuracy for...
Max’s Paper in Brain and Neuroscience Advances
Max Kramer, a 2nd year Master's of Computational Social Sciences student in our lab, has recently published his first article in Brain and Neuroscience Advances, from work done in his undergraduate career at Oberlin College.This research article, entitled "Validation...
Drawing Method Tutorial Available!
In the Brain Bridge Lab, we've been using drawings as a way to examine what content is contained in underlying memory representations. While this method is both quantifiable and objective, it has been very underutilized by the field at large. If you're interested in...
New Paper in Neuropsychologia
Dr. Bainbridge and her collaborators Xenia Grande, David Berron, Anne Maass, and Emrah Düzel have a new paper out in Neuropsychologia entilted 'Content-specific vulnerability of recent episodic memories in Alzheimer's disease'. In this paper, they discuss how episodic...
Congrats to Undergraduate Summer Fellows!
Congratulations to our three undergraduates who won research awards and fellowships for the summer: Rebecca Greenberg, Madeline Gedvila, and Trent Davis! Rebecca was selected as a PRISM scholar and a 2021 College Summer Research Scholar. Madeline won a Neuroscience...
Feature in UChicago News: ResMem!
ResMem, a state-of-the-art machine learning model made by our Master's student Coen D. Needell, has been featured in an article by UChicago News! ResMem is a model for predicting the intrinsic memorability of an image. Simply upload an image and the estimated...
New Paper in Memory & Cognition!
Dr. Bainbridge and her colleagues Wan Kwok and Dr. Chris Baker have published a new study in Memory & Cognition on the relationship of scene–object consistencies on memory representations. For example, would we remember a scene with a mailbox in a bedroom...
Brain Bridge Lab @ V-VSS 2021!
The Brain Bridge Lab will have 6 posters at this year's annual Vision Sciences Society conference! We're really proud of all our lab members who are presenting their research, many of whom are doing it for the first time at a scientific conference. Below are our...