You missed a paragraph that would help out your understanding of what they're discussing and studying and remove the need to spam the '?' key in mock outrage:
> Previous studies have shown that math and logic problems seem to rely mainly on the multiple demand regions in the left hemisphere, while tasks that involve spatial navigation activate the right hemisphere more than the left. Working with Marina Bers, a professor of child study and human development at Tufts University, the MIT team found that reading computer code appears to activate both the left and right sides of the multiple demand network, and ScratchJr activated the right side slightly more than the left.
She didn't say anything about what code is in relation to math and logic, she was speaking about how the activated regions in the brain are different between the two tasks. And per the study they are different, or, as she said, "not the same".
> Previous studies have shown that math and logic problems seem to rely mainly on the multiple demand regions in the left hemisphere, while tasks that involve spatial navigation activate the right hemisphere more than the left. Working with Marina Bers, a professor of child study and human development at Tufts University, the MIT team found that reading computer code appears to activate both the left and right sides of the multiple demand network, and ScratchJr activated the right side slightly more than the left.
She didn't say anything about what code is in relation to math and logic, she was speaking about how the activated regions in the brain are different between the two tasks. And per the study they are different, or, as she said, "not the same".