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Ah, this is explains the effect of entering a room and not remembering why you went there.
... Or pressing the start key in Vista and seeing a wall of live tile distractions. In my experience the start page idea was a software implementation of "Doorway Effect". I always had to return to the desktop to have my "refrigerator logic" spin up. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fridge_logic >
TOTP 2FA is terrible for this. I’ll sign into a website, pick my phone up to read the TOTP code, and instead end up on HN or Signal or something. Put the phone down after a couple of minutes, look back up to my computer screen with the 2FA prompt and go “oh yeah, that’s why I looked at my phone” That happens probably 50% of the time. And I wish that was an exaggeration.
Now if only I could turn off the "you must investigate X" shouting my brain randomly throws at me WITHOUT external stimuli.
For some reason that sentence really irked the critical thinker in me. As if they have the schema for the human brain.
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Meaning that the effect must be fairly strong to be observable in two studies with n=50? I would agree in general, but I would like to see three or more, as well as variations to test the boundaries of this. Things can go wrong in one or two studies, so having independent replication is needed to really cement things.
> Meaning that the effect must be fairly strong to be observable in two studies with n=50? Do what now? Isn't the problem that it could have randomly happened (especially if people did a bunch of other similar studies that didn't observe an effect, and only these two were published)?
The problem with a single study of n=50 isn't the 50, it's that it's a single study.
> Memory is organized around specific events or episodes, such as attending a lecture or having a family meal, rather than being a continuous stream interrupted by sleep. For some reason that sentence really irked the critical thinker in me. As if they have the schema for the human brain.
Sorry to hijack this, but a related problem of mine is I can't picture myself going through a doorway. Like the brain just doesn't compute for some reason.
Can you picture other things? A long time ago I read that if you are awakened and want to fall back asleep, you should picture yourself turning around, going through a door to your basement stairway and descending the steps towards the dark basement. I tried forever to do this and couldn't, and thought it was something about this scenario specifically. But then years later, I learned about aphantasia and realized I c…
Visualizing myself going through a doorway is difficult even for me. I think it's in part because it requires some creativity (compare "visualize yourself going through a doorway" as opposed to "visualize yourself going through the doorway of your childhood house"). The salient conceptual feature of a doorway is that it goes somewhere and so the prompt basically is asking you to imagine something without explicitly asking you. Even your example of the basement stairway is much easier for me to visualise, because the doorway has stairs after it.
Ah, this is explains the effect of entering a room and not remembering why you went there.
How 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.)
If they didn't observe it, that would provide some level of falsifiability?
> 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.)
There's a study listed on that page which observed that re-entering the same room did not improve recall.