9 Weird Facts You Didn't Know About The World

The Doorway Effect:
Why Do We Forget What We Were Supposed To Do After We Enter a Room? Psychologists believe that passing through a doorway and entering a different room creates a 'mental block' in the brain, which means that walking through open doors resets the memory to make room for the creation of a new episode.Forgetting why you entered a room is called the “Doorway Effect”, and it may reveal as much about the strengths of human memory, as it does the weaknesses, says psychologist Tom Stafford. W. We've all done it.