Leonard and Yi think this may explain why some people pick up the sounds much more easily than others, as each unique brain strikes its own balance between main

Leonard and Yi think this may explain why some people pick up the sounds much more easily than others, as each unique brain strikes its own balance between maintaining the stability of the native language while calling on the plasticity required to learn a new one. Probably just bad journalism but this quote just says “each brain strikes its own balance”. They don’t go so far as to say some people have more plasticity and whether there are other tradeoffs with that. For example I’ve always felt I’m a fairly slow but deep learner- like my brain takes longer than average to be productive at complex new tasks as it is rewiring but I learn things at a fairly deep level, so I wish they had shed light on that.