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this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2023
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That example about London cabbies is actually one of my favorite studies...
But changes to certain structures in the brain isn't what I was talking about. And I've never heard of that being categorized as neuroplasticity.
Which makes it even weirder that the article is about how we should differentiate more.
So let's stay specific?
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnagi.2021.666851/full
But that study was done on people aged 65+ for 11 weeks? I mean, sure, they didn't measure any significant changes to the brain, but that doesn't preclude changes forever. 11 weeks is not long to practice a language