How Leaving a Room Affects Your Memory
|Every so often, you’re struck with brilliance. But moments later, it’s gone. The solution to this: Don’t leave the room. BPS Research Digest reported that memory performance decreases when you walk through an open doorway, compared with walking the same distance within a 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.