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Violet Zhou

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1since 2021 · last 2025
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Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 1 · 1 since 2021

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Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
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Empirical software engineering · 100%

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TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Empirical software engineering › developer studies
developer expertise
0.912025
Studying Programmers Without Programming: Investigating Expertise Using Resting State fMRI · ICSE 2025
Empirical software engineering
developer studies
0.912025
Studying Programmers Without Programming: Investigating Expertise Using Resting State fMRI · ICSE 2025

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resting-state analysis · 0.9fMRI · 0.9
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Studying Programmers Without Programming: Investigating Expertise Using Resting State fMRI
abstract
Expert programmers are more effective at coding activities, but the reasons for this remain elusive. Accordingly, recent research has used neuroimaging such as fMRI to analyze how expert programmers might think as they perform coding activities. Those experiments have all involved specific program-ming tasks (i.e., comprehension), but have been unable to detect systematic differences based on coding experience. By using tasks, however, those studies may limit the number and type of brain networks involved. In Cognitive Neuroscience, researchers commonly analyze resting-state data, in which participants' brain activity is recorded as they lay idle in the scanner. The brain's functional organization is plastic, and can change with experience. These changes can be measured at rest, making this a suitable data type for studying how programming activities affect neural organization over time. In this paper, we analyzed the resting state scans from 150 participants, 96 of whom were programmers. We found increased connectivity in programmers between brain regions involved in language, math, and the tempo-ral attention. Non-programmers demonstrated more connectivity with regions involved in social and emotional cognition. We found that as years of programming experience increases, connectivity decreases between two regions associated with visual processing during reading and articulation, respectively.
Zachary Karas, Benjamin Gold, Violet Zhou, Noah Reardon, Thad Polk, Catie Chang
ICSE3