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I would be interested in the results of a variation: the participant walks through a door, only to enter the same room they just left (easier to test with the v
by oneeyedpigeon 11y ago
I would be interested in the results of a variation: the participant walks through a door, only to enter the same room they just left (easier to test with the virtual version!) My hypothesis is that, when entering a new environment, the brain immediately has a huge number of stimuli to respond to, and that's what causes the short-term memory loss. Maybe being told in advance that they would re-enter the same room would have an effect.
- wanderingstan 11y agoThe article describes exactly this experiment.
- breadbox 11y agoAlmost, but not exactly: The article describes moving through two doorways, the last one taking the person back to the original room. That's different from passing through a doorway but never entering a new room. If the "doorway effect" significantly decreased in that scenario, it would strongly suggest that it's the sudden introduction of new surroundings that triggers the memory dump that the article describes, rather than the doorway itself.