Computers don’t simply "understand" code in the way humans do. They rely on a highly sophisticated series of steps to ...

Reading software code is different to reading written language, but it also doesn't rely on parts of the brain activated by maths. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer Dec. 17, 2020, 4:56 a.m. PT ...

The compiler converts high-level commands into binary digits. Binary code is a series of 1s and 0s that a computer uses to process commands. Jan Hakan Dahlstrom/Getty Images ...

Neuroscientists have found reading computer code does not rely on the regions of the brain involved in language processing. Instead, it activates the 'multiple demand network,' which is also ...