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In contemporary cognitive neuroscience, early models of lexical retrieval posited a strictly modular architecture wherein visual word recognition operated independently of sentence-level context. Recent neuroimaging evidence, however, has undermined this rigid framework; far from functioning as an autonomous processor, the visual word form area exhibits rapid sensitivity to top-down contextual expectations. Indeed, far from remaining static or fixed, the neural representations governing early orthographic processing are remarkably plastic, dynamically altering their selectivity to align with surrounding semantic signals. Consequently, researchers now view early visual processing as an integrative rather than encapsulated stage of reading.

In the passage above, which of the following best captures the meaning of the word 'plastic' as used by the author?