Evidence suggesting that young computer programmers have “bilingual brains”

Re:Evidence suggesting that young computer programmers have ... by jquery on Monday December 17, 2012 @02:42PM (#4933942)

"data from the attention networks task showed that computer programmers performed this task faster than controls and the difference between the two groups was significant"

Both groups were computer programmers, so what is he/she talking about? Can someone please clarify the conclusion of the study?

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Re:Evidence suggesting that young computer programmers have ... by pygy_ on Monday December 17, 2012 @02:51PM (#4933985)

There were two groups: programmers and non-programmers. Each group was subdivided in two age groups (look for age matched controls in the article).

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Re:Evidence suggesting that young computer programmers have ... by jquery on Monday December 17, 2012 @05:12PM (#4934721)

Thank you! Makes perfect sense now.

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