There's something that we use every day without "thinking"about it, yet it is the most mysterious organ in our body.
Using our brain to think about our brain gives even the most advanced scientists and health doctors a headache.
One of the most infuriating things the brain does is make us instantly forget why we walked into a room as soon as you do it. Why am I here?
Notre Dame scientist Gabriel Radvansky had had enough forgetting and set out to understand why it happens, spending close to 20 years to find the answer. He finally made some progress (without forgetting about it).
He used computer-based and real-world experiments to see how memories are affected by changing their surroundings.
The tasks the subjects were given were simple enough: They were instructed to pick up a colored shape and take it to another table. The second table was either in the same room or a different one. About 50 of the computer-simulated subjects every so often asked what they had just put down. Radvansky found that passing through a door heightened errors.
This is known as "event boundary," where our brains compartmentalize and tie memories to the environment. When you enter another room, your brain creates a new file for it—storing everything you knew about the first room away.
