Paper Info
Title
Toward measuring program comprehension with functional magnetic resonance imaging
Abstract
Program comprehension is an often evaluated, internal cognitive process. In neuroscience, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is used to visualize such internal cognitive processes. We propose an experimental design to measure program comprehension based on fMRI. In the long run, we hope to answer questions like What distinguishes good programmers from bad programmers? or What makes a good programmer?
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2393596.2393624
SIGSOFT FSE
Keywords
Field
DocType
program comprehension,experimental design,internal cognitive process,long run,functional magnetic resonance imaging,bad programmer,good programmer
Programmer,Functional magnetic resonance imaging,Computer science,Theoretical computer science,Human–computer interaction,Cognition,Program comprehension
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.95
9
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Janet Siegmund133827.69
André Brechmann210813.43
Sven Apel33980184.13
Christian Kästner43591135.92
Jörg Liebig549317.26
Thomas Leich692558.39
Gunter Saake73255639.75