“…Although such repetitive and intensive training is usually difficult to study in human participants, Sakai et al focused on second language acquisition in visitors to Japan over the course of several months , and succeeded in revealing functional changes in both modality-dependent networks and domain-special language areas. Moreover, these cortical regions were found to be selectively recruited for specified music processes (pitch, tempo, stress, and articulation) after several years of musical instrument training (Sakai et al, 2021 ).…”