How do software developers respond when they come across code they do not intuitively understand? Neuropsychologists have now explored this question by recording brain activity alongside eye movements ...

A new study uses eye-tracking and EEG to uncover the linguistic brain waves programmers produce when reading confusing code.

Researchers from Saarland University and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems have, for the first time, shown that the reactions of humans and large language models (LLMs) to complex or ...