This is your brain on code
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Interesting article with from study where they examine brains with MRI while coding. Your Brain On Code Isn't Like Your Brain On Language[^]
Different magazine but same topic: The Insider News[^] Interesting to check for differences...
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Different magazine but same topic: The Insider News[^] Interesting to check for differences...
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Interesting article with from study where they examine brains with MRI while coding. Your Brain On Code Isn't Like Your Brain On Language[^]
I think programming or computer science in general is more similar to managing/designing a restaurant or packing luggage for a vacation than like it is to math or language. Those latter two are sometimes sub-disciplines, though. Our code might perform math operations or we might try to make really clean code that is readable in a prose-like manner. Maybe mark-up language coding would rely more on the language part of the brain.
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Interesting article with from study where they examine brains with MRI while coding. Your Brain On Code Isn't Like Your Brain On Language[^]
Studies of Brain Activity Aren’t as Useful as Scientists Thought | Duke Today[^] In this case, what did they actually study? Someone programming? Reading code? Thinking? An MRI has very strong magnets so the subjects couldn't be using a device and would have had to stay immobile for several minutes. I happen to agree with the hypothesis that coding languages are not the same as written or spoken languages, but this is horrifically bad "science". (Beyond what I said, the selection of the "languages" is questionable and where is the control group? Say, someone who speaks half a dozen languages?)
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Studies of Brain Activity Aren’t as Useful as Scientists Thought | Duke Today[^] In this case, what did they actually study? Someone programming? Reading code? Thinking? An MRI has very strong magnets so the subjects couldn't be using a device and would have had to stay immobile for several minutes. I happen to agree with the hypothesis that coding languages are not the same as written or spoken languages, but this is horrifically bad "science". (Beyond what I said, the selection of the "languages" is questionable and where is the control group? Say, someone who speaks half a dozen languages?)
I will read the Duke study closely because if they turn that upside down then a lot of the past 20 years of brain study will go away and would turn a lot of the understanding of the brain upside down. And, when I say that I'm not saying I care, just interesting because they've put a lot into the MRI studies showing where brain activity occurs.