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http://news.nd.edu/news/27476-walking-through

-doorways-causes-forgetting-new-research-shows/

EVER WALK INTO A ROOM with some purpose in 

mind, only to forget what it was? It turns out, doors

 themselves are to blame for these strange memory lapses

. Can this contribute to dementia's wandering,

 confusion and problems with traveling?

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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, se

parating 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. 

It is referred to as a location-updating effect, and it

 results in a decline in memory when people move

 from one location to another. 

This may help explain the confusion a person with

 dementia experiences when they transition from one 

place to another, as well as when they wander or 

travel.

MORE INFORMATION:
Walking through doorways causes forgetting:
Further explorationsGabriel A. Radvansky, Sabine A. Krawietz, and Andrea K. Tamplin
Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA