卡壳的记忆碎片

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　　Have you ever walked into a room and realized you don't remember what you're doing there?
　　Well, thankfully science finally explains why: It's the doorway's fault.
　　A new study finds 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.
　　Study author Gabriel Radvansky, a psychology professor at the University of Notre Dame, explains doorways are like a chapter marker. They end old episodes and begin new ones. This makes it difficult to retrieve older memories because they've already been filed away.
　　He suggests physically carrying a reminder of what your intent is.
　　For example, if you want to go from the living room to the kitchen to get a snack, it would be easier to remember if you walked into the kitchen with something to remind yourself of what you wanted, such as a bowl.
　　So if you're to fetch a pair of scissors, hold your index and middle fingers in a scissor shape to help the memory stay intact. And when you enter the washroom… well......
　　你是否遭遇过这样的情境：当你走进一间房间，却突然不记得你到这来做什么？
　　好在科学可以解释这一现象：都是走廊惹的祸。
　　一项新研究发现，你从一个房间走到另一房间，大脑认定每个房间为一件新事情，由此建立新的记忆。
　　该研究的作者Gabriel Radvansky是圣母大学的心理教授，他解释走廊就像是章节标记，标志着前一章的结束和下一章的开始。所以回忆变得困难，因为记忆已经“归档”了。
　　他建议最好带实物提醒自己的意图。
　　比如，在卧室的你到厨房拿点零嘴。你可以拿一个碗之类的东西，很容易就记起你到厨房干什么了。
　　那么，如果你去拿剪刀，就可以食指中指交叉，比出剪刀的手势，这样就可以帮你想起来啦！如果你要上厕所，那么……