software

: the instructions that control what a computer does; computer programs

Example:

“He's written a piece of software that does your taxes for you.”

In neuroscience and neuro-technology, software refers to the programs and algorithms that turn raw neural activity into usable information — filtering and de-noising signals, decoding brain data into commands, and increasingly using machine-learning models to label, interpret, or reconstruct patterns of thought. It is the counterpart to neuro-technology hardware: the hardware records from or stimulates the nervous system, while the software makes sense of what is recorded and directs what is sent.

Related terms: hardware, software-as-a-service, artificial intelligence, brain-data-as-a-service