{"id":14044,"date":"2012-06-21T13:20:46","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T17:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=14044"},"modified":"2012-06-21T13:20:46","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T17:20:46","slug":"wires-crossed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wires-crossed\/","title":{"rendered":"Wires Crossed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I was driving to work and listening to one of my favorite recent albums, <em>Mazes<\/em>, by <strong>Moon Duo<\/strong>.  Every time I get to this song, I get distracted:<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/je7IugG_Ejk?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Each time &#8220;Scars&#8221; come on I wait for the next two notes of <em>this<\/em> song:<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FvRgC0pMIoc?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>This phenomenon of &#8220;Proactive Interference&#8221; happens to me a lot\u2014my listening to the later song is impacted by my recollections of the earlier song.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing that this happens to you, too.  I&#8217;m also suspecting that this tendency contributes to some listeners not really wanting to seek out a lot of new music. (&#8220;It just reminds me of the older stuff.&#8221;)  Or for you musicians out there, have you ever found that you have a difficult time learning to play a new song because you are recalling an older, similar song (&#8220;Proactive Inhibition&#8221;)?  Do you have other songs that you can share with us that demonstrate these cognitive processes and drive you to distraction?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I was driving to work and listening to one of my favorite recent albums, Mazes, by Moon Duo. Every time I get to this song, I get distracted: Each time &#8220;Scars&#8221; come on I wait for the next two notes of this song: This phenomenon of &#8220;Proactive Interference&#8221; happens to me a <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wires-crossed\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[661,574,660,448],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}