Short-term memory takes information from sensory memory and sometimes connects it to something in:

1. The stages of memory are not sealed off from one another. 2. Short-term memory takes information from sensory memory. 3. It sometimes connects that memory to something already in long-term memory. 4. That linking is part of what makes new material easier to retain. _Source: OpenStax Psychology 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 8 'Memory', sections 8.1-8.4_