Why You Forget Why You Walked Into a Room

You walk into a room and instantly forget why you came. You're not getting old, and you're not distracted: your brain hid that thought the second you crossed the doorway. Here is the experiment that caught it, why going back usually doesn't help, and why this glitch is the price of having a memory at all. Chapters: 0:00 You walk in and forget why 0:31 The video game experiment 1:31 Why going back doesn't help 1:59 Your brain cuts your day into scenes 2:58 The experiment with no door at all 3:31 Why this system actually helps you 4:36 What actually helps 5:07 What's next Sources: Radvansky & Copeland (2006), Memory & Cognition Radvansky, Krawietz & Tamplin (2011), Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Zacks, Speer, Swallow, Braver & Reynolds (2007), Psychological Bulletin Zacks et al. (2001), Nature Neuroscience Swallow, Zacks & Abrams (2009), Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Lawrence & Peterson (2016), Memory Pettijohn, Thompson, Tamplin, Krawietz & Radvansky (2016), Cognition McFadyen, Nolan, Pinocy, Buteri & Baumann (2021), BMC Psychology This video is for education only and is not medical advice. #brain #memory #psychology