Your new post is loading...
Coding is becoming an increasingly vital skill. As more people learn how to code, neuroscientists are beginning to unlock the mystery behind what happens in people’s brains when they “think in code.”
“Computer programming is not an old skill, so we don’t have an innate module in the brain that does the processing for us,” says Anna Ivanova, a graduate student at MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. “That means we have to use some of our existing neural systems to process code.”
Ivanova and her colleagues studied two brain systems that might be good candidates for processing code: The multiple demand system—which tends to be engaged in cognitively challenging tasks such as solving math problems or logical reasoning—and the language system. Despite the structural similarities between programming languages and natural languages, the researchers found that the brain does not engage the language system—it activates the multiple demand system.
Mulling over a computer program is not like thinking in everyday language—but it's not pure logic either
read this very interesting article on IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/software/what-does-your-brain-do-when-you-read-code
