Title: Walking Through Doorways Makes you Forget
Author: Marianne English
Date Posted: 23/11/2011
Posted on: Discovery News
You surely had times when, one you got up to get something from another room you totally forget. The "location-updating effect," is a phenomenon, which when walking in from a place to another it makes memory work slower, which means that once you forgot what you were about to do it takes more time to recollect memory.
Moving from one space to another seems to signal the brain to restore its previous information and to concentrate on the new space rather than the old one. That makes it harder to remember the information from the prior one.
Researchers to test made an experiment. The put college student into virtual and real rooms and they had to remember which objects they carried and then placed down.
Another study on the topic showed that participants forgot information from crossing through a doorway. The location-updating effect may also have something to do with humans' inclination to remember events in segments rather than on a scale. The result also indicates that moving between spaces appears to have a greater effect on memory than a person's interest or engagement in the room itself. Apart from if it was something easier to remember.
So that is how I always forget what I want to get. This was really cool. I thought we just simply forgot.
ReplyDeleteI know it is very interesting! It answer many questions I had thought of why I would always forget why I went in a different room for.
ReplyDeleteI hate when I forget what I am thinking it happens to me all the time. I thought your article was cool I liked it very interesting.
ReplyDeleteThis is really cool tiny! Omigosh, now I know why I forget everything all the time! I won't be walking through doors for a very long time :P
ReplyDeleteTHIS ARTICLE IS VERY INTERESTING WHY IT EXPLAINS THE REASON OF ONE OF THE MOST COMMON THING THAT HAPPENS IN OUR LIFE...
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