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We’ve all experienced it: The frustration of entering a room and forgetting what we were going to do. Or get. Or find.
New research from University of Notre Dame Psychology Professor Gabriel Radvansky suggests that passing through doorways is the cause of these memory lapses.
“Entering or exiting through a doorway serves as an ‘event boundary’ in the mind, which separates episodes of activity and files them away,” Radvansky explains.
This is amazing research and it makes sense! Since I have OCD, now every time that I walk through a doorway I will obsess over it and what I am forgetting lol
wow, my post was deleted? i simply stated that if walking into a new room creates memory loss, could the same theory be applied to like opening a new window screen on you computer... or how many times have you been watching something on tv and then a commercial came and you changed the channel and started watching something else for a couple minutes and you think "what was i watching before this that i need to go back to"
The next thing they should look into is whether opening a new browser window does the same thing, causing us to forget why we opened the browser in the first place.
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