Although these lapses in memory might seem entirely random, some researchers have identified the culprit as the actual doorways. Astoundingly, these studies show doorways cause forgetting, and this effect is so consistent it has come to be known as the “doorway effect”. Let’s put this to the testIf the doorway effect is so powerful, why are these memory lapses at home actually quite rare? Under these more difficult conditions, this time we confirmed the doorway effect. Why is our result so different to the powerful doorway effect reported by previous studies?

Source: Stuff March 09, 2021 22:18 UTC