Links
The Brain-Activity of People Coding Is Different
shapeof.com
From the study:
The researchers saw little to no response to code in the language regions of the brain. Instead, they found that the coding task mainly activated the so-called multiple demand network. This network, whose activity is spread throughout the frontal and parietal lobes of the brain, is typically recruited for tasks that require holding many pieces of information in mind at once, and is responsible for our ability to perform a wide variety of mental tasks.
I’ve long thought programming is to a great extent about organizational skill, especially when it comes to larger projects.
I agree. This is one thing that I’m finding is a big benefit in hardware work, where the hardware itself is also huge and complicated but also largely planned and recorded on paper, while the code behind it is contained only in the code — and then temporarily at times in the brains of the designers & organizers.