Surely you have experienced the situation where you completely forgot why you came into another room.
Anxiety immediately arises that the matter may be related to age or illness.
However, scientists from Notre Dame have found that this misfortune can also haunt very young people. They called this phenomenon the “doorway effect” and found out what it is associated with, sharing the results of the study on the Taylor & Francis portal.
The experts conducted two experiments. During the first, a virtual house was created, where some subjects were asked to take and carry objects within one room, and others were asked to walk around the entire house.
As a result, those who moved from room to room often became confused when asked what object they had just moved.
Repeating this experiment in reality with passage through a doorway only confirmed the previously obtained conclusions: forgetfulness increased sharply if people had to move things to another room.
The author of the experiment came to the conclusion that the "doorway effect" leads to a change in the information environment. This forces the brain to adapt to what is happening and study the new room, rejecting all the old tasks, which are less important from its point of view.
