Brain Activity Measurement during Program Comprehension with NIRS

DOI

10.2991/ijndc.2014.2.4.7How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Program comprehension, Brain activity measurement, NIRS, Frontal pole

Abstract

Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) has been used as a low cost, noninvasive method to measure brain activity. In this paper, we experiment to measure the effects of variables and controls in a source code to brain activity during program comprehension. The measurement results are evaluated after noise reduction and normalization to statistical analysis. As the result of the experiment, significant differences in brain activity were observed at a task that requires memorizing variables to understand a code snippet. On the other hand, no significant differences between different levels of mental arithmetic tasks were observed. We conclude that the frontal pole reflects workload to short-term memory caused by variables without affected from calculation.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - JOUR
AU  - Yoshiharu Ikutani
AU  - Hidetake Uwano
PY  - 2014
DA  - 2014/10/31
TI  - Brain Activity Measurement during Program Comprehension with NIRS
JO  - International Journal of Networked and Distributed Computing
SP  - 259
EP  - 268
VL  - 2
IS  - 4
SN  - 2211-7946
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ijndc.2014.2.4.7
DO  - 10.2991/ijndc.2014.2.4.7
ID  - Ikutani2014
ER  -