Music activates neural systems of reward and emotion.
One day, Dr. Feiner said, computers will probably be wired directly into our neural systems.
Similar neural systems seem to underpin past-related and future-related thinking.
Economists do not study people, they study collective neural systems in people who form mass expectations.
US linguist George Lakoff fears the ways in which such metaphors are "reshaping the neural systems of all Americans".
Autobiographical memories are stitched together as and when they are needed from information stored in many different neural systems.
Pascal was right, they explain, because "the neural systems responsible for emotion and intellect are separate, creating the chasm between them in human minds and lives".
Researchers pinpointed the neural systems by scanning volunteers' brains as they watched movies shot on the streets of Soho in central London.
He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University and received a doctorate in computation and neural systems from the California Institute of Technology.
"It's nonsense to equate an artificial-life creature with the creation of biological life," scoffed Igor Aleksander, professor of neural systems engineering at Imperial College London.
But our neural systems notice and use them to build automatic behaviors.
