Surely, more than once, you were late for work or an appointment and it has cost you horrors to remember where you left your house or car keys. In an article published recently in the scientific journal Cognition , Grayden Solman, a researcher at the University of Waterloo (Canada), concluded that this very common phenomenon could be due to a lack of synchronization between the part of the brain that controls the movements, which works at a very high speed, and the neurons in charge of perceiving the objects around us , which due to their slowness cannot keep up. That would make that, even if we have the object we are looking for right in front of our noses, our brain is absolutely unable to "see" it.
Therefore, Solman qualifies, the phenomenon has nothing to do with poor memory .
