cognitive psychology. PhD 
Keyboard and muscle memory as distributed cognition--how much implicit knowledge do you have built up in your fingers? "Hmm I need to find that variable and rename it" --> "Ctrl-S var Ctrl-S space M-% var2 enter"
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I also really wonder what kind of mental maps people have about their code. Like https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Distortions-in-memory-for-maps-Tversky/b37450c80a36d1d45291a8fe3817d8256c5e1ef0 … but for a codebase. To an expert who has carefully built a codebase over years, what alleys and pathways do they see in their creation?
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