Feeling Forgetful? Blame Your Brain.

We've all done it - walked into a room and completely forgotten why we were there. Well, it turns out that you're not having a "senior moment." You have your brain to blame!

According to a study out of the University of Notre Dame, when you move from room to room, your brain identifies each room as a new event and sets a new "memory trace" to capture the new event. As far as your brain is concerned, the doorways between rooms are like chapter markers - ending older memories and beginning new ones. It's harder to remember what you were just doing in a different room because your brain has already filed that memory away!

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