There are (clinically) lots of times people don't pay attention and 'tune things out' due to hyper-viigilance.
That process leads to somewhat fractured long-term memory. Basically your brain starts to use short-term memory for something like l2 cach and starts writing stuff that would have gone first into short-term memory and then archived elswhere with a "bibliography" note, directly into deep memory at 1:1 without any simple summary of the memory.
This is how you get people with intensely detailed memory "stacks" without a fully operational "card-catalog" of what is actually in the libary.
The key point is these steps are somewhat plastic.
That process leads to somewhat fractured long-term memory. Basically your brain starts to use short-term memory for something like l2 cach and starts writing stuff that would have gone first into short-term memory and then archived elswhere with a "bibliography" note, directly into deep memory at 1:1 without any simple summary of the memory.
This is how you get people with intensely detailed memory "stacks" without a fully operational "card-catalog" of what is actually in the libary.
The key point is these steps are somewhat plastic.