Parts of the brain are "rewired" when people learn computer programming, according to new research. Scientists watched university students’ brains as they learned to code. The team used functional ...

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Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...

The language we learn growing up seems to leave a lasting, biological imprint on our brains. German and Arabic native speakers have different connection strengths in specific parts of the brain’s ...

Programming is hard. Good programming is a lot harder. Curiously, I didn't know that for the better part of a decade. I went into the Air Force in the mid 70's as a flight simulator maintainer and a ...

The team used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to track the brain activity of undergraduates before and after they took an introductory course in Python, a programming language. They found ...