Can Walking Through Doorways Prompt Memory Loss? Researchers
Say, Yes Have you ever felt slightly insane, or perhaps a little
old, when you get to a room and then can’t remember what you
went in there for, even though you had just thought about it?
It’s not just you. New research shows that you’re not losing
your mind; it’s just being compartmentalized. A recent study
conducted by the University of Notre Dame focused on the
phenomenon known as an “event boundary” and concluded that we
all experience them. The results of the study showed that
walking through doorways causes the memory to lapse. Researcher
Gabriel Radvansky explained, “Entering or exiting through a
doorway serves as an ‘event boundary’ in the mind, which
separates episodes of activity and files them away.” This means
that forgetting what you went to the kitchen for is not an issue
of faulty memory or the effects of age, but rather a normal
function of your brain. Radvansky said, “Recalling the decision
or activity that was made in a different r