Science
Forgotten why you walked into a room? New insight puts memory lapse in context – Brisbane Times
Anyone who has walked into a room and forgotten why has suffered what’s known as the “doorway effect”. Now researchers have gained new understanding of how it works….
The phenomenon known as the doorway effect when someone forgets what they went into a room for is not actually about doors at all, researchers have found.
The situation of having walked into a room only to forget why you did so is familiar to many people, however it was brought to prominence in a study by researchers from the University of Notre Dame in the US in 2011.
Researchers have gained a clearer understanding of how the doorway effect works.
It was concluded that the act of passing through…
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