realcleverscience:

gjmueller:

How walking through a doorway increases forgetting

The key finding is that memory performance was poorer after travelling  through an open doorway, compared with covering the same distance within  the same room. “Walking through doorways serves as an event boundary,  thereby initiating the updating of one’s event model [i.e. the creation  of a new episode in memory]” the researchers said.

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Hmmm…
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Nov 13th 2011 · 2,671 notes · Tags: #science #psychology #memory
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