In 2011, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology published an article by one of us (DJB) entitled "Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences on Cognition and Affect" (Bem, 2011).
As for influences, I think most of the influences were retroactive, in that I didn't realize any similarities between this book and others until someone pointed them out to me.
Around 1980, a retroactive recognition of his influence combined with the resurgent prestige of contemporary European art to boost his fame.
Most talented artists are retroactive victims of their own influence in this way".
Whereas proactive interference occurs when earlier memories influence new memories at encoding, retroactive interference takes place when old memories are changed by new incoming information at the consolidation stage.
Recently, we introduced a graph-based metric, termed Shortest Retroactive Distance (ShReD), to assess the degree of mutual influence, or retroactive interactions, between reactions in a metabolic network.
I tend to combine that inspiration w/ what's in my head from my early influences & that's how you end up with an album like Retroactive.
