This will be especially true if we have apps and windows that appear every time we enter a different room.
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#12I clicked to add a comment, but as soon as the page changed I forgot what I was going to write ... ---- Seriously though, happens to me all the time. Not sure if just getting dotty. The connection between spatial presence and memory is an interesting one; see also Memory Palaces[1] It makes me wonder if it's different for people totally blind since birth. Is the visual aspect important, or just the "spacial-ness"? [1…
I was joking with someone who was asking about getting a walking pad for their standing desk that it would be psychologically disastrous for this reason, citing the ancient Greeks memorizing epic poems by walking places to make memory associations. Why would one purposely want to have an association made between something as mundane/regular as walking with working at a screen?!
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#13Many psychological studies sound convincing but are hard to replicate and/or based on low sample sizes or poor experimental design. Seeing a plausible mechanism underlying a theory isn’t enough. So I’m writing this comment as a placeholder. Who here has checked the source studies?
Roughly speaking what is the total number of people in all studies pertaining to this claimed effect?
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#14This seems sort of intuitive to me so I’m inclined to believe it, but at this point can we really believe any of these sort of pop-behavioral studies with interesting quirky effects? It seems like the entire field is so overwhelmed with fake data and bullshit that it’s hard to separate anything that might actually be real.
Consider an acute care facility. Patient care supplies (IV bags, IV sets, catheters, dressing supplies) are usually in a side room called the supply room.
Ours was in a room behind a doorframe without a door. If I was getting dressing supplies in a state of flow/on auto-pilot, more often than not, I would blank as soon as I went through that doorway and would have to actively think exactly what the hell I was there for.
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#15How is the theory falsifiable? What if I pass between two rooms that look identical? Has this been studied? (It seems to me that the underlying claim of episodic memory might not be able to tell a difference.)
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#16I only skimmed, but the two linked articles have ~50 participants or _fewer_ (college students) for each.
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#17I've noticed that retracing your steps (either literally if walking or not) helps enormously.
For me it happens that I'm doing something on my phone, remember to do something else, switch apps to do it, and literally forget what it is. But by going back or checking the recent apps I find again the "trigger" of the original reminder.
For example, you are checking [social network] and you see a post that reminds you to go searching for [object]. You close the app, open the browser...and you try to remember what were you going to search. Just going back and seeing the social network posts you were watching will remind you again of it.
It's like the though's owner is the other situation/room, and as soon as you forget one you forget the other with it. Quite interesting
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#18I clicked to add a comment, but as soon as the page changed I forgot what I was going to write ... ---- Seriously though, happens to me all the time. Not sure if just getting dotty. The connection between spatial presence and memory is an interesting one; see also Memory Palaces[1] It makes me wonder if it's different for people totally blind since birth. Is the visual aspect important, or just the "spacial-ness"? [1…
I was joking with someone who was asking about getting a walking pad for their standing desk that it would be psychologically disastrous for this reason, citing the ancient Greeks memorizing epic poems by walking places to make memory associations. Why would one purposely want to have an association made between something as mundane/regular as walking with working at a screen?!
Wouldn't it be moving through space that would make the assosiation, not walking itself?
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#19How is the theory falsifiable? What if I pass between two rooms that look identical? Has this been studied? (It seems to me that the underlying claim of episodic memory might not be able to tell a difference.)
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#20Ah, this is explains the effect of entering a room and not remembering why you went there.