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Reading code isn't the same as knowing a language

Reading code is closer to solving a crossword puzzle, as opposed to using language centres

Tags — | interesting-papers | Categories: — dev | human-problems |
Posted at — Feb 25, 2021

It’s a bit of a shameless repost, but the paper is pretty fascinating and speaks for itself.

From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology:

To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language: Neuroscientists find that interpreting code activates a general-purpose brain network, but not language-processing centers." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 15 December 2020..