The science finally reveals the answer to one of the questions that more disturbing to humans: Why do we forget what we were going to do?
And in recent years, a phenomenon that some have called “short-term forgetfulnesscharacterized by not being able to remember things that we were going to do seconds ago.
Some suppose that we forget what we were going to do due to poor memory, but that couldn’t be further from the truth and science finally reveals it.
Why do we forget what we were going to do? This reveals science
The neurologist Saul Martínez-Horta, director of the Center for Neurocognitive Diagnosis and Intervention of Barcelona, explained that these “momentary forgetfulness” have to do with memory prospective.
If you are wondering what purposeful memory is, the answer is simple: it is responsible for remembering specific actions in the future, such as looking for keys or remembering to do an assigned task.
However, there are events that can alter it with some other stimulus or intersection, thus causing a mental saturation which prevents you from remembering what you were going for, since your brain will always prioritize your most recent stimulus.
So these temporary forgetfulness are not directly related to a serious failure of memorybut these can be triggered by events such as:
- a noise
- a message
- a thought
According to Saul Martínez-Horta, forgetting what you were going to do occurs “because a new stimulus takes the place of the original order”, something that is not bad, since it only shows the complexity of the human brain.
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How can we avoid forgetting what we were going to do? These are some tips
Forgetting what we were going to do is one of the most frustrating things that can exist, so here we give you some tips to avoid it:
- Write what you were going to do
- Reduce distracting stimuli
- Organize activities by priorities
- Give your brain a breath
- Keep your objects in order
Neural connections (Pixabay)