Older article by Tina Amirtha on topic how human brain interprets coding. Researchers at the University of Passau have looked into the brains of programmers, using the imaging tools of neuroscience. You can find the study here in PDF form.
Each person (university students) read several different Java code snippets of similar difficulty so that the researchers could average the resulting brain imaging data.
So, does computer programming fall into the languages subject area?
“It appears to make some sense, based on what we have learned from the study,” Siegmund says.
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