No amount of not-watering is going to make the center drop down. Or give the areoles so much room in between. Or even make it tuberculate. Or give it thick brown spines...
The eriocactus(magnifica, warasii, schumaniiana, leninghausii, nigrispina) complex always has the following:
Dense , thin almost bristle like spines and areoles, straight, untuberculated ribs, generally taller stems, and heliotropism of the plants apex.
The mammullosa-ottonis complex( most of the former notocactus), with species including scopa, buiningi, wernerii have thicker spines, concave growth centers(like most rebutia do), shorter, wider stature and most importantly tubercules.