{"id":4387,"date":"2011-11-23T09:45:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T14:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/?p=4387"},"modified":"2017-01-24T18:18:44","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T23:18:44","slug":"why-i-cant-find-my-coffee-mug-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2011\/11\/why-i-cant-find-my-coffee-mug-explained.html","title":{"rendered":"Why I Can’t Find My Coffee Mug, Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Well, maybe. Walking through doorways robbed my memory, or so says Professor Radvansky in this piece just published in Notre Dame News.<\/em><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve all experienced it: The frustration of entering a room and forgetting what we were going to do. Or get. Or find.<\/p>\n

New research from University of Notre Dame Psychology Professor\u00a0Gabriel Radvansky<\/a> suggests that passing through doorways is the cause of these memory lapses.<\/p>\n

\u201cEntering or exiting through a doorway serves as an \u2018event boundary\u2019 in the mind, which separates episodes of activity and files them away,\u201d Radvansky explains.<\/p>\n

\u201cRecalling the decision or activity that was made in a different room is difficult because it has been compartmentalized.\u201d<\/p>\n

The study was published recently in the\u00a0Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Conducting three experiments in both real and virtual environments, Radvansky\u2019s subjects \u2013 all college students \u2013 performed memory tasks while crossing a room and while exiting a doorway.<\/p>\n

In the first experiment, subjects used a virtual environment and moved from one room to another, selecting an object on a table and exchanging it for an object at a different table. They did the same thing while simply moving across a room but not crossing through a doorway.<\/p>\n

Radvansky found that the subjects forgot more after walking through a doorway compared to moving the same distance across a room, suggesting that the doorway or \u201cevent boundary\u201d impedes one\u2019s ability to retrieve thoughts or decisions made in a different room.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Go read the rest.<\/a> Me losing track of my coffee cup was a running joke when I was Sir Topham Hat at Crack O\u2019 Dawn Trucking. Nowadays, I just drink my coffee on the way into work. Problem solved! Now\u2026where the hell is my cell phone? Perhaps I should just remain seated.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, maybe. Walking through doorways robbed my memory, or so says Professor Radvansky in this piece just published in Notre Dame News. We\u2019ve all experienced it: The frustration of entering a room and forgetting what we were going to do. Or get. Or find.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,37],"tags":[8,31,13],"class_list":["post-4387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living","category-working","tag-funstuff","tag-in-the-news","tag-personal-history"],"yoast_head":"\nWhy I Can't Find My Coffee Mug, Explained<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Well, maybe. Walking through doorways robbed my memory, or so says Professor Radvansky in this piece just published in Notre Dame News. 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