Why You Forget What You Walked Into a Room For: The Doorway Effect
Walking through a doorway can make you forget why you got up. What the original experiments found, what a larger 2021 study added, and how to stop it happening.
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Walking through a doorway can make you forget why you got up. What the original experiments found, what a larger 2021 study added, and how to stop it happening.