Brain activity before and after college programming course (IMAGE)

Johns Hopkins University

Brain activity before and after college programming course

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After college students took a programming course, parts of their brain activated as they read code. Surprisingly, before the students took the class or knew anything about programming, the same groups of neurons also fired when the students read the programs described in plain English

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Yun-Fei Liu/Johns Hopkins University

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