# 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]]