Studying Programming in the Neuroage

This is a crazy idea," the review read. Closing my laptop lid, I added in my mind "and ... it will never work," as a lump welled in my throat. What we were proposing to do was simple yet ambitious. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we might better understand what goes on in the minds of programmers as they read and understand code. We had performed pilot experiments with a neurobiologist, had promising results, and encouraging words from colleagues and reviewers.