The mystery of encoding information into STM: How does information get from Sensory Memory to Short Term Memory?

*How our attention moves information from SM to STM is complex and mysterious-- how do you decide to pay attention to a thing before you are even consciously aware of that thing? Yet, most of the time, people just assume that the transfer process works perfectly: What we see is what there is. On rare occasions, however, we realize that we must be "seeing" things out of order. For example, surgeons sometimes see a patient bleeding from the cut produced by their scalpel--and then "see" the scalpel make the cut! In those cases, they are not seeing the scalpel make the cut as it is happening but instead are seeing a replay of that event! To experience a case of hearing things out of order, take 40 seconds to try this demonstration.