A Neurophysiologically Inspired Hippocampus Based Associative-ART Artificial Neural Network Architecture

Hippocampus within medial temporal lobe of the brain is essentially involved in episodic memory formation. Rather than simply being a mechanism of storing information, episodic memory associates information such as the spatial and temporal context of an event. Using hippocampus neurophysiology and functionality as an inspiration, we have developed an artificial neural network architecture called Associative-ART to associate k-tuples of inputs. In this paper we present an overview of hippocampus neurophysiology, explain the design of our neural network architecture, and present experimental results from an implementation of our architecture.