News
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...
Deepa’s Publication in IMPULSE
Our lab manager, Deepa Prasad, has recently published her first paper entitled "Correlated Activation between Striatal and Cortical Regions during a Movement-Related Signal Detection Task: A Re-Analysis of Two fMRI Datasets" in IMPULSE, an undergraduate neuroscience...
New Book Featuring an Interview with Dr. Bainbridge
In her new book "Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World", social psychologist Dr. Emily Balcetis interviews Dr. Bainbridge about her research on memorability. Dr. Bainbridge discusses what drew her to the topic and some of her current studies in...
New Paper in Neuropsychologia
Dr. Bainbridge has a new paper out in Neuropsychologia, entitled "The resiliency of image memorability: A predictor of memory separate from attention and priming". This research examines the phenomena of memorability by exploring two main questions: is image...
Boundary Extension Paper in UChicago News
Dr. Bainbridge's recent paper on debunking boundary extension has been featured in UChicago News! The article discusses the major findings of the paper and touches on the need to reexamine even well-established psychological phenomena.
New Paper Out in Current Biology
Dr. Bainbridge and collaborator Dr. Chris Baker have recently published "Boundaries Extend and Contract in Scene Memory Depending on Image Properties" in Current Biology. This paper takes a look at the well-established phenomenon of "boundary extension" and their...
Course Development Initiative Award
Dr. Bainbridge just won a small funding award through the Course Development Initiative at UChicago. She'll be using it to develop an undergrad course on Big Data & Psychology.
The Beginning of the Brain Bridge Lab!
The Brain Bridge Lab has officially started! Today, Dr. Wilma Bainbridge joined the University of Chicago's faculty as an Assistant Professor, having just finished her post-doc at the National Institute of Mental Health. She is joined by Deepa Prasad, the new lab...