Walking through a doorway causes memory lapse -The Doorway Effect

Ever feel like you walk into a room and forget why you went in there in the first place? Relax, you don't have early onset memory loss. There is a reason why you forget things when you walk into a room through a doorway and forget why you actually entered that particular room.

By doing several researches the Scientist have found that walking through a door makes us forget certain things. Scientist have pegged this phenomenon as 'the doorway effect' or the 'location updating effect'. According to this theory also known as the event segmentation theory, our brain creates representation of the events called the event models, which lets us to predict what might come next to any given moment. These event models needs to be updated as the circumstances around us changes. Doorways are signals that something has changed and our memory needs to be refreshed. Therefore while walking through a doorway the brain updates the status report and the old information becomes inaccessible even if you need it. So it leads to forgetting of the old things and events when we cross a doorway.