In the past decade, brain and autonomic nervous system activity measurement received
increasing attention in the study of software engineering (SE). This paper presents a …

Computer programming is becoming essential across fields. Traditionally grouped with
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines, programming also …

The motivation behind using physiological measures to estimate cognitive activity is typically
to build technology that can help people to understand themselves and their work, or indeed …

Computer programming is a novel cognitive tool that has transformed modern society. What
cognitive and neural mechanisms support this skill? Here, we used functional magnetic …

Most modern software programs cannot be understood in their entirety by a single
programmer. Instead, programmers must rely on a set of cognitive processes that aid in …

Background: Researchers and practitioners have been using code complexity metrics for
decades to predict how developers comprehend a program. While it is plausible and …

It has been well documented that a large portion of the cost of any software lies in the time
spent by developers in understanding a program's source code before any changes can be …

Subjective judgments in software engineering tasks are of critical importance but can be
difficult to study with conventional means. Medical imaging techniques hold the promise of …

Program comprehension is the main activity of the software developers. Although there has
been substantial research to support the programmer, the high amount of time developers …

Programming assistants have reshaped the experience of programming into one where
programmers spend less time writing and more time critically examining code. In this paper …