Scientific research by Charles Brenner and Jeffrey Zacks has observed that walking through doorways interferes with memory and facilitates forgetting.
Scientific research by Charles Brenner and Jeffrey Zacks has observed that walking through doorways interferes with memory and facilitates forgetting.
More specifically, their “doorway effect” is a theory based on the fact that retaining a memory is more difficult after literally walking through an actual doorway (to another room, the outside, the other lecture hall, in or out the church, a stage door etc). It appears that memory works better when remaining in the room in which it originally captured the information — in real locations (like a piano practice room, the university, a museum, a shopping center, the green room etc.), as well as in virtual reality simulations (like an Avatar program at DARPA; or Skyrim, the Sims or Destiny on PSX) — and that one loses some of the information when walking out of the room. It’s called the “encoding specificity” principle and suggests that memory organizes information in a “location based” way. Full story.
Jura Margulis (The Huffington Post) / June 18, 2015
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