What does the underlined DESCRIBED modify
The passage below is from ‘the Blank Slate’ by Steven Pinker.
http://evolbiol.ru/blankslate/blankslate.htmDoes an increase in dexterity depend on using more square centimeters of cortex or on using a greater concentration of synapses in the same number of square centimeters? These are important scientific problems, but they say nothing about whether people can learn, or how much. We already knew trained violinists play better than beginners or we would never have put their heads in the scanner to begin with. Neural plasticity is just another name for learning and development, described at a different level of analysis.In this passage I want to know what the underlined DESCRIBED modifies.
It seems to modify 'Neural plasticity' in a way, and it also seems to be able to modify 'learning and development.'
I am leaning toward the former, but I am not 100% sure.
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