Ever walk into a room with some purpose in mind, only to completely forget what that purpose was?
Turns out, doors themselves are to blame for these strange memory lapses.
Psychologists at the University of Notre Dame have discovered that passing through a doorway triggers what’s known as an event boundary in the mind, separating one set of thoughts and memories from the next. Your brain files away the thoughts you had in the previous room and prepares a blank slate for the new locale. It’s not aging, it’s the door! Thank goodness forstudies like this.
Goddess 😀
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Posted by: sevenout on January 25, 2013, 2:55 pm
I learned that a long time ago while working restuarants. We determined that doors, and to a lesser extent corners, cause amneisa. Glad to see there is finally something official to back up what we always knew. 😉
Posted by: Dr Crapology on January 29, 2013, 4:06 pm
And I thought I was losing my mind. It is good to know that I aM "NORMAL."
Doc
