Special Feature: A Language-Based Approach for Creating a Human Brain - RIKEN BSI News No. 25 (Aug. 2004) - RIKEN Brain Science Institute (RIKEN BSI)

Special Feature: A Language-Based Approach for Creating a Human Brain - RIKEN BSI News No. 25 (Aug. 2004) - RIKEN Brain Science Institute (RIKEN BSI)

Introduction
Using language as a foundation, the Laboratory for Language-Based Intelligent Systems is developing an artificial system that emulates human intelligence. Language is integral for human intelligence, therefore a language- based approach should be incorporated into any attempt to create a model of the human brain. Such an approach would necessarily be topdown because we still do not know how higher order functions of language are supported at the neuronal level. Moreover, a language-based approach allows us to observe internal characteristics of the brain's language system externally.