"The Doorway Effect – Why walking into a room makes you delete your memory" explains a universal human experience: You walk into the kitchen to get something, pass through the door, and suddenly have no idea why you are there. This is not early-onset dementia; it is a feature of how the human brain organizes memories. Author Emily Moss describes the "Event Horizon" theory. The brain treats different rooms as different "files." When you walk through a doorway, the brain performs a "context reset" to free up processing power for the new environment, effectively dumping the short-term memory from the previous room. "The Doorway Effect" offers comfort and strategies. It teaches readers to carry physical cues (like holding the empty cup) to bridge the context gap. It is a fascinating look at the spatial nature of thought and why our minds are mapped to our physical surroundings.
