Toward measuring program comprehension with functional magnetic resonance imaging

Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT 20th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, FSE 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Siegmund, Janet ^a   Brechmann, André ^b   Apel, Sven ^c   Kästner, Christian ^d   Liebig, Jörg ^c   Leich, Thomas ^e   Saake, Gunter ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PASSAU   (Germany)

^d PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^e METOP Research Institute   (Germany)

Author keywords

controlled experiments; fMRI; program comprehension

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE PROCESS; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; FMRI; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84871333725     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2393596.2393624     Document Type: Conference Paper

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