Thursday, January 31, 2013

Doors, Beeps, Wheels = Memory lapses

 Received in e-mail 

It's not our age, it's that dumb door!

Ever  walk into a room with some purpose in mind,
  only to completely forget what that purpose was?

Doors 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.

 Did some further reading on the subject and recommend 



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