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Have you ever walked into a room and realized you don't remember what you're doing there? The findings of a new study suggest that you can blame it on the doorway, msnbc.com reported.

"When you go from room to room, your brain identifies each room as a new event and sets a new memory trace to capture the new event," said lead researcher Gabriel Radvansky, Ph.D., a psychology professor at the University of Notre Dame.

Like a chapter marker, doorways end old episodes and begin new ones. This makes it difficult to retrieve older memories because they've already been filed away.

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过门即忘 真有其事？

       你是否遇到下述状况：走进房间，却忘记自己要做什么。据MSNBC报道，一项最新研究显示，这都是门道惹的祸。

       主导这项研究的美国诺特丹大学心理学教授——加百利·拉德万斯基博士称：“当你从一间房走进另一间房，大脑会把每间房都当作新事件，建立新的记忆途径去捕捉新事物。”

       就像章节标记一样，门道会把旧的片段合上，开始新篇章。因为已经归档，调出之前的记忆便显得困难。

(China.org.cn February 1, 2012)