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 for studies like this.
Good to know!
Another amazing discovery by research scientists. :2c:
I can’t wait to tell my husband. He thought we were getting old. How silly of him! 🙂 :cheer:
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I just read a report of that study earlier this week. I was so relieved.
After the results were published, enough money was saved in the prescription program to pay for the study. Ah . . . what were we talking about? :dontknow:
Thanks for clearing that up!
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What were you clearing up again?
Did you just walk through a doorway? I tried that earlier today. Missed. Walked into the doorway. :banghead: Then I was left with the knotty problem of why. :no:
Who knew! Event boundaries? Isn’t that a term in astronomical physics too? Thanks for enlightening us.
Are you thinking of “event horizon?” The event horizon is the gravity field of a black hole where the space-time is so bent that light cannot escape it.
I sometimes feel like I’m living in, or near, one of those. 😉
Ah yes- that’s it! Well, the doorway could be an horizon as easily as a boundary. Better in fact, because doorway always has something beyond. I think that’s it! When I get sucked into a new room it has tasks and problems of its own, and I can’t escape to get back to the original problem.
It could indeed! 😀 And that’s when we find ourselves thinking about the hereafter. As in, “What am I here after?” :thinker:
As to the event horizon, I think they call it that because to an outside observer nothing that happens beyond the event horizon can be seen by or have an impact on that observer.
What were we talking about? :think: