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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...
ResMem Package Released!
A user-ready version of ResMem is now available on PyPI! The model included in the package is designed to estimate the memorability of an input image but is not intended for feature space analysis. The model is optimized for accuracy by allowing the ResNet features to...
After The Paper: What Drawings Reveal about Memory
Dr. Bainbridge has written a blog post for Nature on how "drawings can be a meaningful and objective method to measure the information in a memory". The post discusses her recent work, like the boundary extension and aphantasia studies, that use a drawing task to...
The Ongoing Boundary Extension Debate: A Reply to Dr. Intraub
Boundary extension is a well established psychological phenomenon in which people consistently recall a scene with visual information beyond its boundaries (Intraub & Richardson, 1989). For example, when asked to draw the below image of a house from memory,...
Feature in UChicago News: Aphantasia
Dr. Bainbridge's recent work on congenital aphantasia, the inability to form voluntary visual imagery, has been featured in UChicago News! In the article, she discusses the large-scale aphantasia study recently published in Cortex and how it "adds to a growing body of...