Projects / Memory & the hippocampus

Hippocampus models

A continuous-attractor grid-cell simulator and Vector-HaSH associative memory, extended with online Hebbian learning and metaplasticity tuned by evolutionary search.

Grid cells

A continuous attractor network (CAN) of grid cells driven by a simulated rat exploring a box, rendered to video.

Vector-HaSH

An implementation of Vector-HaSH, in which prestructured grid-like “spatial” scaffolds give the hippocampus a high-capacity associative and episodic memory.

Extension: learning online

The paper uses an exact pseudoinverse. Here, Hebbian learning with metaplasticity (plasticity of plasticity) memorizes patterns online, with its parameters found by an island-model CMA-ES.