Books

Books : reviews

Teuvo Kohonen.
Self-Organization and Associative Memory: 2nd edn.
Springer. 1988

This book provides a tutorial treatment of new approaches to self-organization, adaptation, learning and memory which lends itself to graduate and postgraduate courses in information science, computer science, psychology, theoretical biology, and physics.

The book presents new formalisms of pattern processing, e.g., orthogonal projectors, optimal associative mappings and self-organization of topological maps, in order to provide an understanding of the properties of information representations and of many functions of the brain. In the second edition two new chapters on neural computing and optical associative memories have been added.