-ics, -tics [-ac after i]
(Greek: a suffix that forms nouns and is usually used to form names of arts and sciences)
Such instruments can be constructed using a scanning tunneling microscope.
A single atom has been used as an electrical switch and an individual molecule has been used to convert alternating current into direct current.
2. The study of the most recent structures and structural history of the earth's crust, from the end of the Miocene epoch to the present.
Neuroesthetics is defined as the scientific study of the neural bases for the contemplation and creation of a work of art and uses the techniques of neuroscience in order to explain and understand the aesthetic experiences at the neurological level.
The topic attracts scholars from many disciplines including neuroscientists, art historians, artists, and psychologists.
Apparently coined in imitation of the word aerobics by Dr Lawrence C Katz and Manning Rubin in their 1999 book Keep Your Brain Alive to present mental exercises invented to help people keep their brains "alive". Remaining mentally active, it’s advocated, keeps the links between brain cells alive and busy.
2. In the physical sciences, the study of exchanging information and self-regulating control systems with a mutual relation to machines and individual living things: The general theory of neurocybernetics distinguishes three aspects of brain information activity: statistic, semantic, and pragmatic.
3. A science concerned with the processes of managing and the transfer of information in the nervous system: It is possible to identify three components of neurocybernetics: the organization, the regulation, and the theory of knowledge, based on three streams in the material world (substance, energy, and information).
The goal is to observe and to measure what's happening in the brain when people are making decisions with the purpose of understanding human social interactions through every level from synapse to society.
Neuroesthetics utilizes the techniques of neuroscience in order to explain and to understand esthetic experiences at a neurological level while the physician investigates the structure and activity of the brain in response to the experiences of esthetic phenomena.