- Founder Field
- Sir Demis Hassabis
- Academic Origin
- UCL, 2009, Cognitive Neuroscience
- Core Theory
- Scene Construction Theory
Fundamental Concept
The hippocampus is a proactive construction engine, not a passive archive for past experience.
AI Isomorphisms
- Mental Simulation as Planning: organisms evaluate future states, mapping directly to Monte Carlo Tree Search in AlphaGo.
- Experience Replay: hippocampal episodic storage maps to the DQN replay buffer, echoing sharp-wave ripple consolidation.
- World Models: the hippocampal scene maps to the latent state in Dreamer-style architectures.