… neural efficiency and indicates lower cognitive load. Thus, we assert that program comprehension
based on semantic cues requires less cognitive effort than bottom-up comprehension. …

… Closest to our study are studies on cognitive load and neural efficiency. Siegmund et al.
conducted an fMRI study and found that the strength of activation depends on expertise [28]. …

… developers show a higher neural efficiency during program comprehension. Additionally,
we can explore differences in novice and expert top-down program comprehension [18]. What …

… , program comprehension research relies heavily on indirect measures of comprehension, …
Measuring neural efficiency of program comprehension. In Proceedings of the Joint Meeting …

… evidence for neural efficiency in individuals with higher programming experience … neural
efficiency 35,36,37 . In summary, higher programming skills might lead to a more efficient neural …

… This paper presents Neural … Neural Code Comprehension is evaluated on multiple levels,
using clustering and analogies for inst2vec, as well as three different code comprehension …

… neural bases. To identify the essential brain regions, this study performed a small meta-analysis
on recent fMRI studies of program comprehension … in various program comprehension …

… to our understanding of program comprehension. Furthermore, … of a programming language
plays for neural efficiency. The … participants to be more efficient in analyzing the words and …

… code comprehension has a consistent neural signature across … programming experience)
performed a code comprehension … We chose a comprehension task partly because it could be …

… ABSTRACT This study attempts to explore cognition during program comprehension through
… Highperformance participants could process program comprehension tasks more efficiently …