"Ever
walk into a room with some purpose in mind,
only to
completely forget what that purpose was?
Turns
out, doors themselves are to blame for these strange memory
lapses.
Psychologists
at the University of Notre Dame have discovered that passing through a doorway
triggers what's known as an event boundary in the mind, separating one set of
thoughts and memories from the next.
Your
brain files away the thoughts you had in the previous room
and
prepares a blank slate for the new locale."
It's
not aging, it's the damn door !
Whew!
Thank goodness for studies :-)