Programming is like Talking

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It seems that programming activates the same brain regions as talking. Whenever we read a piece of code we are using the same brain regions as natural language processing, therefore the same regions activated when we are talking.

It makes a little sense that as a programmer, in order to understand an easy read code, we must embed the “slang” into our cognitive system. We transform a programming language into a real language.

In the following study, Dr. Janet Siegmund used fMRI to scan programmers’ brains while they were reading snippets of code.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-06-language-brain-scans-reveal-coding.html