Simulation of Human Episodic Memory by Using a Computational Model of the Hippocampus

The episodic memory, the memory of personal events and history, is essential for understanding the mechanism of humanintelligence. Neuroscience evidence has shown that the hippocampus, a part of the limbic system, plays an important role in theencoding and the retrieval of the episodic memory. This paper reviews computational models of the hippocampus and introducesour own computational model of human episodic memory based on neural synchronization. Results from computer simulationsdemonstrate that our model provides advantage for instantaneous memory formation and selective retrieval enabling memorysearch. Moreover, this model was found to have the ability to predict human memory recall by integrating human eye movementdata during encoding. The combined approach between computational models and experiment is efficient for theorizing thehuman episodic memory.