Kohonen: self-organized formation of topologically correct feature maps

What changed

A local-neighbourhood learning process ordered feature representations into topology-preserving maps, illustrated analytically and by simulation.

Scientific scope

The record is Kohonen's sole-author 1982 paper and the model and simulations reported there. It is not biological proof, a claim that every later self-organizing map is identical, or a replacement for related competitive-learning antecedents.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is Kohonen's sole-author 1982 paper and the model and simulations reported there. It is not biological proof, a claim that every later self-organizing map is identical, or a replacement for related competitive-learning antecedents.

Contributors

• Teuvo Kohonen · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• Kohonen: self-organized formation of topologically correct feature maps

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