# Teuvo Kohonen **Domain:** Neural Networks / Associative Memory / Self-Organization **Doc Type:** Person Node **Maturity:** Foundational ## Definition **Teuvo Kohonen** was a Finnish scientist known for work on associative memory and self-organizing neural representations. ## 1972 Context His paper _Correlation Matrix Memories_ represented stored information distributively across a matrix and recovered associations through correlation rather than address-based lookup. ## Sources / Provenance - Teuvo Kohonen, “Correlation Matrix Memories,” 1972. - [[articles/Modern Artificial Intelligence in the 1970s|Modern Artificial Intelligence in the 1970s]]. ## See Also [[wiki/Associative Memory|Associative Memory]], [[wiki/Distributed Representation|Distributed Representation]]