INCOME AND CHOICE IN BIOLOGICAL-CONTROL SYSTEMS - A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING THE FUNCTION AND DYSFUNCTION OF THE BRAIN - ROSENSTEIN,GZ

Gershom-Zvi Rosenstein wrote this book in 1972 in Moscow as a doctoral dissertation documenting his work from 1963 to 1972. The book refers to 19 papers published by Rosenstein between 1965 and 1972, most of wh ich have been translated into English, some under the name ''Rozenscht ein.'' From 1973 to 1988 Rosenstein was a ''refusenik,'' removed from organized scientific life. He is now a member of the Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem. The reviewer Leemon C. Baird Il l is a United States Air Force captain and researcher in the Avionics Directorate at Wright Laboratory, wright-Patterson Air Force Base, ohi o. The reviewer A. Harry Klopf is the United States Air Force's Senior Scientist for Machine Intelligence, also in the Avionics Directorate at Wright Laboratory. Their primary research interests are in the area s of reinforcement learning and hierarchical networks of control syste ms that learn. Two of their recent articles appear in Adaptive Behavio r, 1 (No. 3). (C) 1994 Academic Press, Inc.