When does the 'doorway effect' that forgets errands work strongly when you enter the room?
In a new study, I learned about what is called the 'doorway effect' and 'position update effect' that I completely forgot what I was doing the moment I entered the room, even though I had something to do. , It is suggested that the effect is not so strong.
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What Did I Come in Here For? New Study Explains The Weird'Doorway Effect'
Everyone should have had the experience of having something to do and entering the room, but forgetting it the moment they entered. This is called the 'doorway effect' or 'position update effect'.
A team of 74 volunteers, including Oliver Baumann, a psychologist at Bond University in Australia, will use VR (Virtual Reality) to move through a 3D room and remind them of objects in the previous room. I conducted an experiment called.
The experiment resulted in 'volunteers almost never forgot the contents of the room,' and Mr. Baumann wondered, 'Isn't the doorway effect really there?'
In response to the results, Mr. Baumann conducted the same experiment on volunteers with a new load on the working memory. Then, the doorway effect was confirmed this time.
From multiple experiments, Baumann's team came to the conclusion that the trigger for memory loss seems to be 'moving from one place to a significantly different place' rather than a 'doorway.' Mr. Baumann gave an example of a department store, and moving to another floor by elevator does not have an effect because it is not a move to a 'significantly different place', but it is 'significantly different' like a parking lot and a floor. By moving between places, you forget what you had to buy.
Baumann said that understanding how working memory is reset to some extent due to major changes in the environment could help manage or mitigate the doorway effect in the future.
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