You enter your living room, then pause.
You feel your mission's momentum, but its aim is suddenly lost.
So what just happened?
And why does it keep happening?
Well, you're not alone.
This is actually a common phenomenon scientists have termed the doorway effect.
According to psychological models, our brains parse life's continuous flow of time and activity into distinct events.
As a situation unfolds, the brain develops a working model of the event.
It likely does this by employing its default mode network, the brain regions that work together to accomplish many resting thought processes.
Then, when there's a big enough change, the brain is thought to identify an event boundary, at which point it stores the prior event model and begins developing a new working model.
