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Thanks, yes, the article doesn't use that word specifically. I quoted the parent comment. The article, and especially the headline, does use somewhat misleading language (as both @tunesmith's comment and the very top comment here is pointing out, among others) that is trying to imply that the brains of these two types of musicians is fundamentally different, e.g., "their brains started to replan the actions faster than classical pianists" and "their brains showed stronger awareness of the fingering". The language is implying a rewiring, and objectifying the brains of different musicians as being static and responsible for the difference, rather than talking about the plasticity of the human brain and the learned differences between wildly different tasks.



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