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I read an interesting article the other
day about a study on the human memory. It turns out that walking into another
room and forgetting what you came in there for is not a symptom of stress or
bad memory; it is simply the way the human brain stores information.
In the study scientists had both online
and offline subjects take an object, place it in a box where they couldn’t see
it, and walk across a room. Once they reached the other side of the room, they
had to tell what the object was by memory. All the subjects passed that test,
but when they put a doorway in the center of the room and walked the same
distance through that doorway, many of them could no longer remember what they
held.
Why is that? Well, scientists think it
has to do with the way the human brain prioritizes
memory. Your short term memory only has a certain amount of space. Your brain
thinks that what is in the new room is more important to remember than what was
in the old room. The old room is ‘old data’ that is purged to make room for
new.
Of course, you can always remember what
you need to if you repeat it to yourself or write it down, but I thought it was
interesting that the same phenomena happened both online and off. Even when
playing a game, a doorway triggers memory purging. Now, that says something
powerful about the human brain, doesn’t it?
You can read the whole article here: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-walking-through-doorway-makes-you-forget
Paul and his wife Julie both spend quite
a bit of time coming up with ideas, blogging, and researching all things
related to childcare. They take care of all the necessary information related
to “babysitters”. He personally think his blog will help finding
information on all things related to a babysitter. 
