Friday, December 9, 2011

Forget Why You Walked in a Room? Doorways to Blame, Study Finds

BY CAMILLE BORKOWSKI


http://www.livescience.com/17132-forget-walked-room-doorways-blame-study-finds.html

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7 comments:

Cypress said...

Wow! This happens to me all the time, but I never would have thought to blame a door way. I just thought that it was the distracting things around me. I wonder who could have come up with the idea of this! That's so cool that certain brain areas "light up" after different kinds of boundaries. I wonder how people could fix this problem, because you can't just get rid of doorways altogether.

Gillian said...

That is interesting, because maybe they can use that sort of thing on criminals. File away the bad ideas into a folder in the brain, and then make sure it never open again. That would be really useful and if they perfect it then no one would ever have to be on death row again. Although it might be traumatic to walk through a doorway 20 billion times...

Luca said...

This was a very WEIRD post. It is interesting how doorways can alter memory. I will never think of doorways the same way again...

Robert said...

This is such an interesting article! I always do that, in fact early this morning, my dad made told me to get a jacket to wear to school. Then I rushed upstairs as fast as I could. When I got to my room I wondered what I was doing, I went back down stairs for my dad to tell me the same thing again. I wonder how we could fix this problem. Maybe we could do a scientific research on ourselves and find out which place our brains "light up". It might also be a good place to do homework.

Ava D. said...

I really don't think that they need to fix the problem! I don't understand why that would be such a big problem, because all you are doing is walking back and forth through a door, and is that really a bad thing? After all, we need the exercise.

Camille said...

This has happened to me a lot. I also haven't thought to blame the door way. Last night I went into my bedroom and then I forgot why I went in it. So, when I found this article, I had to do it.

JAmeson said...

I would have never thought to blame doorways for forgetting what I wanted to do. I'm never going to think of a door the same way...