News
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...
1 Year Lab Anniversary!
Today is the 1 year anniversary of the Brain Bridge Lab! During the year, we've had 3 Master's students, 3 summer interns, and 4 undergraduate research assistants join the lab to work on exciting research projects. We've also recently submitted 7 abstracts to the 2021...
New Paper in Cerebral Cortex!
Dr. Bainbridge, along with her collaborators Elizabeth Hall and Dr. Chris Baker, has published "Distinct Representational Structure and Localization for Visual Encoding and Recall during Visual Imagery" in Cerebral Cortex. In this paper, they demonstrate that visual...
New Paper Out: Large-Scale Aphantasia Study!
Dr. Bainbridge and her collaborators Zoë Pounder, Dr. Alison Eardley, and Dr. Chris Baker have a new paper out in Cortex entitled "Quantifying Aphantasia through drawing: Those without visual imagery show deficits in object but not spatial memory" (link to the...
Looking for PhD Students!
The Brain Bridge Lab is recruiting 2-3 PhD students for the fall! We are specifically looking for those with a background in psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, or related fields, and students with strong quantitative skills (e.g. programming, statistics)....
6 Month Anniversary!
It's been about half a year since our lab started at the University of Chicago and to celebrate, we made a new lab logo and redesigned the site! The 5 pillars of the bridge represent perception (our 5 senses), and the bridge itself is a memory emanating out from these...
New Paper in Nature Human Behavior!
In a collaboration with Weizhen Xie, Sara Inati, and Kareem Zaghloul at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Dr. Bainbridge has recently published "Memorability of words in arbitrary verbal associations modulates memory retrieval in the...