New research demonstrates better how the brain "rotates" memories at 90 degree angles in order to "juggle" sensory information and short term memories: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-brain-rotates-memories-to-save-them-from-new-sensations-20210415/. Here's the research publication: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-021-00821-9.