From August 24th to 27th, I attended the 2023 Computational Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN) conference in Oxford, UK. On the third day of the conference, I presented a poster. It was about my findings with programming beginners reading either Python code or plain English descriptions of algorithms. The title of the poster is “Neural Representations of Algorithms in the Logical Reasoning Network are Recycled for Programming Code Comprehension“.
Oxford is such a lovely city with rich historical charm that truly captivates anyone fortunate enough to visit. Thus, I’m glad that my first CCN experience took place here. 500 people strong attended the conference. I think this size of a conference was perfect. It was not too small such that I had to always interact with the same group of people. On the otherhand, it was not too large such that I felt helpless trying to find and talk to any specific individual.
I was glad to catch up with Dr. André Brechmann (whom I met last year during the Dagstuhl Seminar) and Patrick Little (a former lab manager in the lab of Dr. Chaz Firestone, in the same Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences as I do). Meanwhile, it was also my great honor to make friends with brilliant minds like Jeroen Olieslagers and Huadong Xiong. And to my delight, I even had a chance to chat with the renowned Dr. Stanislas Dehaene about my research! It was such a great excitement to receive advice from my most revered scholar!
