News
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...
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...