Brain and computer code

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Neuroscientists find that interpreting code activates a general-purpose brain network, but not language-processing centers.

“Understanding computer code seems to be its own thing. It’s not the same as language, and it’s not the same as math and logic,” says Anna Ivanova, an MIT graduate student and the lead author of the study.

“There have been claims from both camps — it has to be together with math, it has to be together with language,” Ivanova says. “But it looks like computer science educators will have to develop their own approaches for teaching code most effectively.”

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To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language

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