Expertise, brain plasticity, and resting state

Author contributions

Jia Wu (Conceptualization, Writing - original draft), Jianheng Wang (Validation), Janniko R. Georgiadis, (Validation, Writing - review & editing), Jimin Liang (Conceptualization), Guangming Shi (Validation), and Minghao Dong (Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing - review & editing)

Conflict of interest

None declared.

Acknowledgements

This article is supported by National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2022YFF1202400). Henan Provincial Medical Science and Technology Tackling Program Joint Co-construction Project (Grant No. LHGJ20210054). The availability of Wi-Fi service on MU771 and access to GPT-4 significantly enhanced the language quality of this manuscript.

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