cognitive psychology. PhD 
That should've read "Understanding code seems to be its own thing", which is what's mentioned in the blog it links to. Incorrectly paraphrased.
Like all neuro studies, you need to understand the method to couch the findings. This study was done on code snippets that had no meaningful structure or variable names -- fine, but don't generalize this to "coding". See the stimuli for yourself: https://github.com/ALFA-group/neural-program-comprehension/blob/master/stimuli/Python/en.py …https://twitter.com/MIT_CSAIL/status/1338957032695717893 …
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My issue is less with the task (comprehension vs authoring) and more with the scope of the domain. People will read this and think "this is true for programming in general". But it's not clear that cognition for these snippets == cognition for standard programming tasks.
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