ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2025
Learning to Program "Recycles" Preexisting Frontoparietal Population Codes of Logical Algorithms.
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Computer programming is a cornerstone of modern society, yet little is known about how the human brain enables this recently invented cultural skill. According to the neural recycling hypothesis, cultural skills (e.g., reading, math) repurpose preexisting neural "information maps." Alternatively, such maps could emerge de novo during learning, as they do in artificial neural networks. Representing and manipulating logical algorithms, such as "for" loops and "if" conditionals, is key to programming. Are representations of these algorithms acquired when people learn to program? Alternatively, do they predate instruction and get "recycled"? College students (
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