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Why Did I Come In Here? How Walking Through Doorways Makes Us Forget

Ever done this: entered a room purposefully, then stood there feeling like an idiot while you try and remember what you came for? Well, now scientists think they have an explanation: going through doorways causes the mind to “file away” the current activity.

As Gabriel Radvansky, Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, USA, explains in a news article published on the University’s website this last week:

“Entering or exiting through a doorway serves as an ‘event boundary’ in the mind, which separates episodes of activity and files them away.”

“Recalling the decision or activity that was made in a different room is difficult because it has been compartmentalized,” he added.

Radvansky and colleagues have been exploring this phenomenon for a while: the findings of their latest study were published recently in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

From Medical News Today, November 20, 2011
Monday’s Brain Tip For Better Planning Planning and organizing are complicated and advanced mental processes that are highly developed in humans compared to other animals. Monday is the day most people set aside to plan the week ahead of them. So, our Monday Brain Tip encourages you to schedule exercise into your and your family’s week. It can help improve your memory. Studies over the years with adults and children have found that exercise can increase the size of your brain’s hippocampus. The hippocampus is important for memory and learning. A recent study at the University of Illinois found that 9 and 10 year old children who got regular exercise had higher scores on memory tests than non-exercisers. In addition to enhancing memory, aerobic exercise has been found to improve attention by enhancing important brain chemicals that regulate our attention levels. So, it is important for your brain that you exercise regularly throughout the week, and schedule it with the same importance as other activities.  How do you feel mentally after you exercise? Share your experiences with us. Source of University of Illinois’ study: Sports Are 80 Percent Mental

Monday’s Brain Tip For Better Planning

Planning and organizing are complicated and advanced mental processes that are highly developed in humans compared to other animals. Monday is the day most people set aside to plan the week ahead of them. So, our Monday Brain Tip encourages you to schedule exercise into your and your family’s week. It can help improve your memory.

Studies over the years with adults and children have found that exercise can increase the size of your brain’s hippocampus. The hippocampus is important for memory and learning. A recent study at the University of Illinois found that 9 and 10 year old children who got regular exercise had higher scores on memory tests than non-exercisers. In addition to enhancing memory, aerobic exercise has been found to improve attention by enhancing important brain chemicals that regulate our attention levels.

So, it is important for your brain that you exercise regularly throughout the week, and schedule it with the same importance as other activities. 

How do you feel mentally after you exercise? Share your experiences with us.

Source of University of Illinois’ study: Sports Are 80 Percent Mental

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