Abstract
Artificial neural networks have been applied to pattern recognition, prediction and control, because they have abilities of learning, generalization and nonlinear mapping. These conventional neural networks have not had "intelligence" yet. Not so many researchers of neural networks have been reported that introduce the structural and functional characteristics of the brain obtained by the progress of neurophysiology. In this study, we focused on the cerebral neocortex, which deals with recognition, language and imagination, introduced its characteristics to neural networks and investigated the possibility of emerging its functional characteristics of the human brain.