What if memory does more than preserve the past?
A new paper co-authored by BrainScores co-founder Jordan DeKraker explores the hippocampus as more than a memory centre, proposing that it may play a central role in helping the brain learn from experience.
Rethinking the role of the hippocampus
The paper proposes that the hippocampus may sit at the apex of the cortical hierarchy, generating self-supervised predictive signals that help the neocortex learn more efficiently from experience.
In this framework, memory does not simply store past events. Instead, it can create repeated opportunities for the brain to extract information and build knowledge from those experiences.
Connecting neuroscience and artificial intelligence
The work brings together ideas from hippocampal organization, cortical hierarchies, memory, and artificial intelligence to explore how biological intelligence may emerge.
It also draws connections to self-supervised learning approaches in AI, offering another example of how insights from neuroscience and artificial intelligence can inform one another.
Congratulations to the research team!
Congratulations to Jordan DeKraker, Boris Bernhardt, Nicole Eichert, Seok-Jun Hong, and Alan Evans on this work.
Research like this reflects the scientific foundation behind BrainScores and the broader questions about brain organization and intelligence that continue to inform our work.