"That's ridiculous.........." WALKS INTO KITCHEN "What was I saying "

@djoakeydoakey1076

7 жыл бұрын

"Yo as your in the Kitchen get me a beer from the fridge." *Gets beer, walks into living room, starts drinking my beer

@RonLarhz

7 жыл бұрын

Pikachu Sparks you shall not pass

No wonder I forget everything entering the exam hall

@CarsSimplified

7 жыл бұрын

If having the exam in the same room improves scores, then it's not a good way to test students to see if they retained what they learned, unless they plan on using their skills in that room after graduation.

@brod2man

7 жыл бұрын

The solution: Build one GIANT room the size of earth so we never leave it and remember everything eternally.

@raspberrytaegi

7 жыл бұрын

+brod2man GENIUS!

@youmaycallmeken

7 жыл бұрын

Outlaw doorways?

@theforestero

7 жыл бұрын

No ownder i always forget Zombies were right behind me..Cos..the door was closed on them in that Mansion..ALSO with what little memory remains of the past.. I always assume the next Door way will NOT have The same Zombies behind it..But..sometimes..they do..???

That's interesting because when I'm leaving the house, there's something about walking through my front door that makes me remember if I've forgotten to take something with me.

@Azzarinne

7 жыл бұрын

I wish my front door worked the same way. I tend to get that effect from walking through the hotel doorway a couple hundred miles away. -.-

@blase9786

4 жыл бұрын

Hilarious!

@cinemaphar

3 жыл бұрын

Same, right when I’m about to leave I remember something I forgot but only my front door

I find walking into the doorways make me forget...

@lazyperfectionist1

7 жыл бұрын

Walking _into_ it? Well yes.

@steven1716

7 жыл бұрын

lazyperfectionist1 *that's the joke*

@jacek107ify

7 жыл бұрын

I often have this feeling, when i get out of the house i always have this sclerosis. Did I remember to lock the door. However, the best way to know that u forgot to lock the door is that you would knew that u forgot. If you are not fully sure whether u locked the door, it 90% means that u locked them

thx now im gonna be concious about it and walking through a doorway will never be the same

@brokenacoustic

7 жыл бұрын

It can be a helpful trick sometimes...after reading the craziness in some youtube comment section, I'll sometimes walk through every doorway of the house, and boom, faith in humanity restored!

@majorlanguid

7 жыл бұрын

Ludvig Juel Martens I will never have faith in humanity.

@hawk3123

7 жыл бұрын

dont worry you'll forget about it once you leave the room

@smokeyjoewalker208

6 жыл бұрын

If the science was done right, you won't have a choice but for it to stay the same.

...Can we call it the Load Screen Effect instead?

@Wendifur_

7 жыл бұрын

I was totally thinking that lol

@Azzarinne

7 жыл бұрын

You can call it whatever you want in your own life. I'm sure my ophthalmologist has some fancy name for the dead pixel in my eye.

@torosalvajebcn

7 жыл бұрын

You mean the louding in video games after a new level is completed?

@honeygui3122

5 жыл бұрын

can't agree more with the new name

@omniscientbarebones

Жыл бұрын

@@torosalvajebcnI hate it when my game louds.

This happens to me all the time. As soon as I walk through that class door, I forget what I studied for.

the host is doing a great job ! :)

@scottseitz8516

7 жыл бұрын

Agreed! She is a great addition to Sci Show.

@agathatc

7 жыл бұрын

obsessedandstuff +

@eva5142

7 жыл бұрын

obsessedandstuff +

@AmbassadorPotato

7 жыл бұрын

I concur! Clear, expressive speech, no annoying vocal quirks or confusing cadence/ emphasis ( such as the bespectacled woman's rising inflection mid-sentence), even her hand gestures are spot on and used sparingly ( take note Simon from Today I Found Out... or busy-mitts as I just decided to call him). Brava!

@Wendifur_

7 жыл бұрын

I'm glad this came up. I can't watch any episode with Olivia in it on SciShow, her voice annoys me so much, I click away instantly. Brit here is great! I love her so far

a video i'd really love to see is one about humour, how laughter works, what's funny, that sort of thing

@doubleru

7 жыл бұрын

Laughter is an allergic reaction to things that don't make sense. Think about it.

@doubleru

7 жыл бұрын

+Gertrude: Well, some people are allergic to peanut butter but not to cat fur, some are the other way around, some to both, and some to neither. There is nothing out there that can make absolutely anyone laugh, just as there there is always someone who would laugh at something no one else finds funny. Like all other allergies, the allergic reaction to nonsense has as much to do with who it occurs in as with what triggers it.

@GamingWO-

7 жыл бұрын

DoubleRu no, words can't make the body persevere it has a harmful substance. Unless they have chipotle the day before

@SidV101

7 жыл бұрын

We don't know for sure, they'd have to present several of the contending theories

@mmaakk32

7 жыл бұрын

SidV101 then so be it! xD

wow. perhaps this also explains that weird feeling you get when information from one setting crosses with a completely different setting. For example, when a little kid is used to seeing their teacher only at school, but freak's out when they see them somewhere else. Heck I still do that now. I see someone in a new location that I'm not used to seeing them and my brain gets confused for a second before synthesizing the information. sometimes I even forget people's names if I see them in a location that I don't normally see them. Please tell me I'm not the only one who has this problem!?

@iPhatDeluxe

7 жыл бұрын

Mu51kM4n we're with you!

@HexenkoeniginVonAngmar

4 жыл бұрын

Not with the names, but even when I recognize them my brain refuses to accept the fact that they're there for several seconds.

@abalahalamatandra

3 ай бұрын

I'm the opposite of most people, I think, when it comes to this scenario. Not with the names part, but about being confused when I run into someone outside of our normal meeting environment. For instance, one of the custodians at my office... I only ever see him at the office, cleaning this or fixing that. But one time I ran into him at the supermarket and simply gave him a casual head nod of acknowledgement as if were back at the office, and I walked on by. It was only seconds later that I realized: Oh wait, this is an unusual encounter event outside of our typical meeting space. Whereas most people would have reacted with surprise and made a big fuss over seeing someone outside of where they normally see them, my reaction was that it was totally normal to see this face... and only moments later did my brain alert me to the fact that this was not a casual encounter as if we were back at the office. And that my response should have been more expressive of the uniqueness of the situation, LOL!

The door is everything; all that once was and all that will be.

@davidrecio3615

7 жыл бұрын

Roque Dietrich "wow the door can do all that"?

@SaintParallax

7 жыл бұрын

david Recio "Ha no"

Brit conveys her message so well in these videos. gj finding this one SciShow!

@mrslinkydragon9910

7 жыл бұрын

CptObliviouz better than the high pitch nasally other one!

Thanks for blowing my mind scishow.

@VideoPerfection

7 жыл бұрын

Steven Hankins succ

@majorlanguid

7 жыл бұрын

Steven Hankins ccus

Brit is a good host! Her voice is pleasant to listen to and she has a lot of confidence. :)

"This happens not only with real doors, ..." Voice in my head: "Hey, are you tired of real doors cluttering up your house, where you open them and actually go places? Get on down to Fake Doors! .."

Can you guys do a video on ADD/ADHD? Like what causes the symptoms, why do stimulants help counter some of the symptoms, how brains of ADD/ADHD patients differ from "normal" brains, ect. That would be fantastic! Huge fan of many years of your channels and I'm glad to see you guys are still growing!

@armadillito

7 жыл бұрын

UmbraOfChaos many years? Hm.

@LongToad

7 жыл бұрын

A video on ADHD? They have info on it at the end of every video, only problem is that people with ADHD never get past the first 5 seconds.

@fuzzykiwi3

7 жыл бұрын

Have you checked out How to ADHD? It's a great channel that touches on some of that stuff.

Friendly demeanor and very well spoken. I think you are my favourite SciShow host

Alternatively, God is playing the Sims and canceled your action. I wonder if it's just a happy coincidence that many old video games load only the current room and completely unloads the previous room when walking through a door.

@jamesbaxterfirst

7 жыл бұрын

angeldude101 based off of what I gathered from this video, it's actually a similar function. Old video games did this in order to save processing power, and similarly the brain has a maximum amount of dedication to functions, therefore when started a new task your brain diverts power away from the previous task and focuses more on the task at hand. Have a goo day!

@angeldude101

7 жыл бұрын

Ya. It seems to be for the same reason, but I'm curious if it was actually modeled after the doorway effect, or if the 2 identical solutions arose independently to solve the same problem.

@seabb

7 жыл бұрын

angeldude101 It's just a very efficient way to do things to suit your purpose, so I'd say they both came about on their own. Also, old video games are, well, old, and back then the research was probably not as conclusive or well-known.

@jamesbaxterfirst

7 жыл бұрын

Given how data is the most fundamental thing in the universe never decreasing (entropy) I'd say that any way that a system could save the use of data is good

@theforestero

7 жыл бұрын

The sad reality is.MOST people cannot know anything they cannot see...and,since most are untravelled(the earth is a large place,much less a town)and uneducated about ANY type of history..It's amazing our little brains and bodies have ANY worthwhile memory or associations at all..considering how shallow,immediate,and uncomplicated our experiential existances are..

*walks through doorway* Your event quest has been updated.

I absolutely love this host!

walking back through the door definitely makes me remember....

host doing very well already^^

Could that be a good reason why mind places are good for memory retention.

@xgozulx

7 жыл бұрын

thats what i thought

@TheJanitorIsIn

7 жыл бұрын

Good question. For the most part, this is going to be a separate issue. The Mind Palace technique utilizes elaborative processing. Elaborative processing essentially the way we build on our memory by adding to it creatively, which makes for better long term storage. It seems that the subject here, "location update effect", has more to do with how we organize memory than how we encode (store) it. Of course there's a bit of a blurry line between the two, but at the very least it should help explain how we organize our memory locationally and doorways help us to refresh our memory.

Sweet! Now I know I'm not losing all my marbles yet!!!

I've definitely experienced this, as I'm sure most people have. But, I have often found that the act of walking back into the area I was, does help me remember. Or, just remembering walking from where I was to where I am, will bring back the memory of why I chose to go where I did (when I have those moments of .. 'wtf did I come in here?") ..

A video about a specific defense mechanism or coping strategy would be really interesting!

The issue is likely related to multitasking. Your mind has to refocus on another massive area in crossing a doorway. We actively get a sense for our surroundings and quickly try cataloging it each time we enter another space. So I think that if rooms are boxes, we only tend to focus very much on one box at a time.

What's in the box!?!?

@James-pb7kr

7 жыл бұрын

Nebby.

@skochendorfer

7 жыл бұрын

HoxTop was looking for this

@vifurawa2715

7 жыл бұрын

GalladeRatchet Dammit, Nebby left the bag again!

@James-pb7kr

7 жыл бұрын

Pew!

@Stabacs

6 жыл бұрын

A cat in a state of superposition between dead and alive

Loving SciShow Psych so far, great job!

There is a French cooking term for this - "maladie de frigo" (fridge illness) - it is used when you go to the walk-in fridge to retrieve something, and once there you have no idea what you went there to retrieve. I've actually been standing in the fridge, trying to remember what I was there to get, when another cook walks in and asks, "Why am I here?"

This is exactly me playing WoW, if I go to a new zone, sometimes I forget what the hell quest I was going to do. This video is amazing. I love this channel.

Great host! She's engaging without being over-the-top. Love it!

I am finding these videos fascinating. SciShow Psych is awesome!

So glad you all started this channel

This is most noticeable when the "other room" is the bathroom. I've spent so many hours looking for lost objects - eyeglasses, phone, purse, shoes, TV remotes - only to find that I set them down in the bathroom & then completely forgot about them - to say nothing of all the fantastic ideas I've had while sitting on the can that disappear once I step out ...

Great video, looking forward to more videos from this channel :)

You gotta love her voice, those grave and smooth sounds.

Whoever writes the script show has a very distinct style (or style guide) that manages to transcend hosts. I never noticed until just now. Very interesting vid, and I'm digging the host as well. Good job all around!

This information has been so useful to me. Now when I go into another room or move to a different part of the house to do something, I know that I have to take a reminder of the task with me. I am also starting to finish tasks before I leave a room knowing that I am less likely to come back to them once I leave. It's been a big help.

You're a great fit, Brit. I enjoyed your delivery, and voice. You'll do great.

this is even evident when opening new apps on your phone. when we open the new app, sometimes we forget why we're there in the first place. how many times have you gone on KZread and then tried to look something up in chrome and completely forgot what you were looking up? there you go

next time, I'll go tell my sis to walk through the door so that she can forget that I ate her cupcake.... >.> twice....

@nommy8599

7 жыл бұрын

Gabrath Drae Just carry around a cardboard doorway and make her walk through to tell you off if she gets mad so she won't remember what she was mad about. It's the perfect plan! :D

so in theory our brain needs a ram and cache upgrade 😟

It's good to see science confirming things people have known for a long time. That's why if you get really frustrated on a problem you should take a break, go outside, and come back to it with a fresh mindset.

As a line cook in a kitchen, I have to walk through one doorway to the back, then another into the walk-in. By then I have no idea what I need. I do find physically saying what I need to remember out loud helps though.

Super interesting stuff on this channel. Love it. 😊

This makes me feel so much better; I'm always forgetting things, as I pass through door ways.

It's episodes like this that make me so happy they started this series!!

This happens all the time at my work. People walk into the room I work in to grab something, and they'll just stop and stand there for a few seconds trying to remember. It's pretty funny to watch.

When you walk through the doorway "Plays windows shutdown music"

I really love Brit's way of presenting!

Funny enough I work the oposite, usually to remember if I got everything from a room I leave and close the door and stand looking at it reimagining where everything is, and if I am in doubt if something is diferent from the image in my head I open the door and usually find the thing I forgot, but maybe I conditioned this therefore I am the exception but is always how it worked for me because I used to forget things all the time and this works 100% of the times I actually look at the door and give myself a moment, works even better than being in the room looking for something I lost.

I absolutely love Brit... first video I've seen that she hosted and she's wonderful ♥

I submit a similar phenomenon: the Tab Effect. Whenever I'm reading an article that piques my curiosity about another, related topic, I'll open a new tab to Google said related topic. But in opening that new tab, I will completely forget *why* I opened the tab. Doesn't happen all the time, but it does happen fairly regularly. Anyway, thanks for this! The Doorway Effect happens to me and I was beginning to worry about my memory.

I don't know how this fits into this model or theory, but it usually happens to me after something else interrupts the current situation, even if for a moment. I was talking to my friend the other day as we walked towards a bus stop and a guy that was passing by asked wether a certain bus would take him to a certain place. It was a simple "I don't know" answer and it took just 10 seconds total, but we had both completely forgotten what we were talking by the time we intended to continue the conversation. It helped me remember the subject by retracing the path we took in my head.

Lovely host! When I first noticed the mic though I thought there was a spider on her chest, freaked me the hell out 😅

I love this show!

I didn't even know this channel existed. As usual, instant subscribe.

She says that returning to the room doesnt help in remembering, but i actually find that it does. Literally i will return to the very spot where i was thinking of something and the thought will come back.

This is the first SciShow Psych episode that managed to hold my attention the whole way through. Woo!

Brit, you're an awesome host! Also, this channel is awesome. This content is fantastic :)

Great episode. I experience this all the time. Especially at work

It happens to me in the same room, but I think it's because I have to do different things and need to grab a tool for the first one and walk to where the tool is, but forget what I was going to get, then go back and usually remember, sometimes I don't but I get reminded by someone later on.

Revolving door + 2 minutes = amnesia...

I am a CNA (Certified Nursing Assistant) which is kind of like a waitress for elderly people except that instead of just serving people food, we help them with anything they need. Anyway, I've gotten into the habit of asking "Is there anything else I can do for you?" before I leave a room. A common answer I get is "I'll remember it when you walk out the door." I wonder if that's because of the doorway effect. I think that the Nurses' Station works as a doorway for me. I often know what I'm going to get until I reach the Nurses' Station, then I find myself standing there, trying to remember what I needed.

Reminds me of how when I was in college I realized that if I sat in the same seat every day, I remembered the lesson better when midterms and finals came around.

It's here!!! Yay! Go Scishow Psych! btw, I sometimes also get this when opening my bag to get something or more rarely, opening my phone to look for something.

This is happening to me more and more as I get older. Usually I'll eventually remember the reason I came into the room in the first place (sometimes I have to go back to where I came from to remember) but sometimes I won't manage to recall what the reason was.

Love this host! Great job!

Is this why sometimes when you open a fridge to get something, you forget what you wanted to get?

Damn she's good!

Thank you this was helpful.

It's even an issue when leaving an app and opening another only to find yourself unsure why you opened it in the first place.

*gasps* :,) a channel from sci show dedicated to psych? Been watching sci show for awhile but didn't see this coming! Thank you guys!!

We talked about how this is kind of the explanation for Sherlock's "brain palace" in my cognitive psych class! You can actually create a literal imaginary palace in your brain and store information in different rooms, so that when you imagine crossing that doorway, you'll remember it better. It's a really cool way to organise information, even if it's not the one that works best for me. You can also use this to your advantage by studying for tests in the same room you will be taking the test in or even picturing yourself in that room while you study because you're more likely to remember it when you enter that room! I could go on forever about this, so I'll stop haha. Anyway, thanks for another great video! I really love this channel :)

Sometimes I'll get up to use the restroom, get lost in thought on the way there, but when I come to, I'm in my kitchen wondering what it was that I wanted to do.

I run simulations of *_everything_* through my head. Whenever I forget stuff, it's usually right where I last saw it.

I am loving this channel so much! I have a question about the topic though? Is the premise the same if you are going up or down stairs to a new room? I catch myself a lot heading downstairs to do something; realising when I get down there I have forgotten what I was going downstairs for.

Such a great host from just the first episodes :O

Wow this explains so much... I do this DAILY! and now I know why. Thank you!

Basically when you walk through a doorway your brain's cache gets deleted

I find that it happens most often when I accidentally walk into the WRONG room.

Love this cause I thought I was developing dementia, I feel so relieved!! Plus, great host :)

This is so intuitive

This is a very regular phenomenon. Recently, my mother forgot whether she had locked the door of home or not after coming out of it, so she had to return home quickly to be reassured. She forgets many important stuff after coming out of home.

I've found that if you know you're going to be somewhere else when you need to remember something, it's easier to make sure you don't forget by telling yourself to remember when you get there For example: I know I have to remember to read, but my book is at home -- so instead of trying to hold on to that thought the whole day, I tell myself that as soon as I walk into my room I should remember "read."

well i can say after watching this video im psyched

Oh so that is why i am always forgetting things i learnt to prepare for exams before walking to class.

She's doing a nice job as a scishow host. Keep up the good work, guys, my "thumbs up" are all yours.

I wonder if waiters and waitresses have the same problem. They have to remember orders, go through a doorway to the kitchen, pick up the ordered food, then go back out the door and remember what table the people are at. Guess that's why they have notepads.

"Hey can you get me some chips?" "Sure" *grabs chips, walk through door, leaves and eats chips*

This now means that I must study my vocabulary in two different rooms so I'll remember it better...

Great Job, Brit Garner!!!!!!!!!!!!!

amazing video!

THIS is quite useful for making Memory Palaces

I remember go over this information in psych courses, and it still astounds me how our brains do this with other rooms. Also how weird my brain must be, cause I once went from my kitchen to my bedroom got confused went back remembered and did this three times in a row....glad I am not loosing my memory at all.

is this why mind palaces are so powerful when practiced?

I find that saying my objective out loud before exiting the room helps me remember

I appreciate the fact that you cite the sources with links. That's great! But could you also consider putting in video citations or links in the video to the papers you are referencing when you mention them? This will make it easier to find the specific source connected to the experiment being cited.

And we all thought that erasing memories was in the future!