The phenomenon known as the “doorway effect” – when someone forgets what they went into a room for – is not actually about doors at all, researchers have found.
Oliver Baumann, a psychology expert with Bond University who oversaw the research, said it was a minor difference from the original findings, but an important one. Professor Baumann went on to say there could even be no door at all, that just changing the topic of conversation or the task a participant was asked to do could be enough of a context change to prompt the brain into forgetting.
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