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Does Walking Through a Doorway Make You Forget?
Does Walking Through a Doorway Make You Forget?Students remembered objects less accurately after crossing a doorway, and imagined crossings produced a similar result in another study. Edward and Lily explain the proposed role of mental event boundaries, then follow later experiments that found no general forgetting effect and a more specific increase in mistaken recognition under memory load.Ed…
Duration: 6:00
- Walking through doorways causes forgetting, new research shows
- Imagining walking through a doorway triggers increased forgetting
- scientificamerican.com
- pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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