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Are artistic brains different?

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Mike thinks that painting is trainable. A word from American English meaning that it can be taught or trained. For him, this is proof that artist's brains are not so different after all. Some scientists think there may be a third possibility. Everyone's brain works by focusing on some areas and ignoring others - making a kind of jigsaw puzzle with missing pieces. Maybe all of us, you, me, Mozart and Jimi Hendrix, are just filling in the missing pieces our own way.

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