{"id":117190,"date":"2020-12-16T05:22:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T13:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/this-is-your-brain-on-code-researchers-decipher-neural-mechanics-of-computer-programming"},"modified":"2020-12-16T05:22:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T13:22:33","slug":"this-is-your-brain-on-code-researchers-decipher-neural-mechanics-of-computer-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/this-is-your-brain-on-code-researchers-decipher-neural-mechanics-of-computer-programming","title":{"rendered":"This is your brain on code: Researchers decipher neural mechanics of computer programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-is-your-brain-on-code-researchers-decipher-neural-mechanics-of-computer-programming.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople want to know what makes someone a good programmer,\u201d Liu said. \u201cIf we know what kind of neuro mechanisms are activated when someone is programming, we might be able to find a better training program for programmers.\u201d By mapping the brain activity of expert computer programmers while they puzzled over code, Johns Hopkins University scientists have found the neural mechanics behind this increasingly vital skill.<\/p>\n<p>Though researchers have long suspected the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain+mechanism\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain mechanism<\/a> for computer programming would be similar to that for math or even language, this study revealed that when seasoned coders work, most <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain+activity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain activity<\/a> happens in the network responsible for logical reasoning, though in the left brain region, which is favored by language.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause there are so many ways people learn programming, everything from do-it-yourself tutorials to formal courses, it\u2019s surprising that we find such a consistent brain activation pattern across people who code,\u201d said lead author Yun-Fei Liu, a Ph.D. student in the university\u2019s Neuroplasticity and Development Lab. \u201cIt\u2019s especially surprising because we know there seems to be a crucial period that usually terminates in <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/early+adolescence\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">early adolescence<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/language+acquisition\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">language acquisition<\/a>, but many people learn to code as adults.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPeople want to know what makes someone a good programmer,\u201d Liu said. \u201cIf we know what kind of neuro mechanisms are activated when someone is programming, we might be able to find a better training program for programmers.\u201d By mapping the brain activity of expert computer programmers while they puzzled over code, Johns Hopkins University [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":544,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1965,2229,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mapping","category-mathematics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/544"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}