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We introduce HippoMM, a computational cognitive architecture that maps hippocampal mechanisms to solve these challenges. Rather than relying on scaling or architectural sophistication, HippoMM implements three integrated components: (i) Episodic Segmentation detects audiovisual input changes to split videos into discrete episodes, mirroring dentate gyrus pattern separation; (ii) Memory Consolidation compresses episodes into summaries with key features preserved, analogous to hippocampal memory formation; and (iii) Hierarchical Memory Retrieval first searches semantic summaries, then escalates via temporal window expansion around seed segments for cross-modal queries, mimicking CA3 pattern completion. These components jointly create an integrated system exceeding the sum of its parts. On our HippoVlog benchmark testing associative memory, HippoMM achieves state-of-the-art 78.2% accuracy while operating 5x faster than retrieval-augmented baselines. 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