Wilma Alice Bainbridge
University of Chicago
Assistant Professor/Lecturer
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Wilma A. Bainbridge is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago, having joined the Department of Psychology in January 2020. She received her B.A. in Cognitive Science from Yale University, studying both visual neuroscience and human-robot interaction. She completed her Ph.D in Brain & Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studying vision and memory. She then completed postdoctoral training at the National Institute of Mental Health in the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition. Her research focuses on the cognitive neuroscience of perception and memory, looking at how certain items are intrinsically more memorable than others, and how the brain is sensitive to this information. She finds that there are certain images—photographs and even faces—that are remembered by most people, and some that are globally forgotten. She also explores the visual content of memories, using drawings and functional MRI to decode memory content.