{"id":120605,"date":"2021-03-16T05:23:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T12:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/how-does-the-brain-interpret-computer-languages"},"modified":"2021-03-16T05:23:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T12:23:30","slug":"how-does-the-brain-interpret-computer-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/how-does-the-brain-interpret-computer-languages","title":{"rendered":"How does the brain interpret computer languages?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-does-the-brain-interpret-computer-languages2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The debate holds a special interest for neuroscientists; since computer programming has only been around for a few decades, the brain has not evolved any special region to handle it. It must be repurposing a region of the brain normally used for something else.<\/p>\n<p>So late last year, neuroscientists in MIT tried to see what parts of the brain people use when dealing with computer programming. \u201cThe ability to interpret computer code is a remarkable cognitive skill that bears parallels to diverse cognitive domains, including general executive functions, math, logic, and language,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Since coding can be learned as an adult, they figured it must rely on some pre-existing cognitive system in our brains. Two brain systems seemed like likely candidates: either the brain\u2019s language system, or the system that tackles complex cognitive tasks such as solving math problems or a crossword. The latter is known as the \u201cmultiple demand network.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The debate holds a special interest for neuroscientists; since computer programming has only been around for a few decades, the brain has not evolved any special region to handle it. It must be repurposing a region of the brain normally used for something else. So late last year, neuroscientists in MIT tried to see what [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,2229,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mathematics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120605","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}