London, June 6 (Reuters): International Business Machines Corp (IBM) is linking with a team of Swiss scientists to create the world’s first accurate, computer-based model of the brain, the US company said today

The researchers hope modelling the brain at the cellular level will give new insights into the workings of the most complex organ in the body.

The immediate goal is to model the circuitry in the neocortex, which accounts for about 85 per cent of the human brain’s mass and is thought to be responsible for language, learning, memory and complex thought.By expanding the work to other areas, scientists hope to eventually generate a computer-based model of the entire brain.