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Math or Language: Which Part of the Brain Processes Computer Code?Category: Microsoft
What exactly happens when we read computer code? Some interesting research was recently funded to find out by the National Science Foundation, the Department of the Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research.
The idea was to determine how exactly computer code is comprehended in the brain — how the variables, function names, and keywords become meaningful expressions and then coalesce into a larger whole.
The researchers discovered that that “multiple demand” region was responding to both kinds of code — even the more visual graphical language.
This new finding reveals that to the human brain, the process of code comprehension is not the same as reading language,” notes an article in Psychology Today.
The idea was to determine how exactly computer code is comprehended in the brain — how the variables, function names, and keywords become meaningful expressions and then coalesce into a larger whole.
The researchers discovered that that “multiple demand” region was responding to both kinds of code — even the more visual graphical language.
This new finding reveals that to the human brain, the process of code comprehension is not the same as reading language,” notes an article in Psychology Today.
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