Difference in Brain Activity by Variable and Conditional Branch in Source Code

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  • ソースコード中の変数と条件分岐による脳活動の差
  • FOSE2014 ソースコード中の変数と条件分岐による脳活動の差
  • FOSE2014 ソースコード チュウ ノ ヘンスウ ト ジョウケン ブンキ ニ ヨル ノウ カツドウ ノ サ

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In this paper, we examine brain activity in program comprehension that contains the effects of 1) calculation, 2) memorizing variables, and 3) judging conditional branch. We measured Frontal pole of twenty subjects at three types code reading tasks and three level mental calculation tasks using NIRS. The result of the experiment showed a significantly higher brain activity at the variables-memorizing task. On the other hand, no significant difference was observed between different levels of mental calculation task. The results suggest that brain activity at Frontal pole indicate a workload of memorizing in program comprehension.

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  • Computer Software

    Computer Software 32 (3), 3_84-3_90, 2015

    Japan Society for Software Science and Technology

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