.... ask a neuroscientist to make a study ? .... because everything else is kinda guessing and the people who tell you the fact that's closest to your opinion will probably win without any hard evidence supporting it.
programmers are humans which means we are bias, maybe programmers have certain brain patterns but even if we have it's only relevant if we compare them to all other fields because maybe a gardener has the same structural thinking patterns ....
the idea and question is interesting but asking a developer how his brain works is not really about facts ... :D anyhow I love to read opinions so I am not against the "self help group" where we argue why we are different and how we are different without opening any meaningful dialog with all the other actors :D ... but I want to point out that most of us are not qualified to have more than an opinion :) ..... ask quora such questions maybe with neuroscientist :) and maybe you're lucky and you will get an qualified answer from an expert of the field :)