W. Ross Ashby
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British psychiatrist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Ross Ashby was an English psychiatrist and a pioneer in cybernetics, the study of the science of communications and automatic control systems in both machines and living things. His first name was not used: he was known as Ross Ashby.
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Published Works
- An Introduction to Cybernetics (1957) (3503)
- Every Good Regulator of a System Must Be a Model of That System (1970) (1116)
- Design for a Brain. (1953) (1074)
- Principles of the self-organizing dynamic system. (1947) (501)
- The Neurophysiological Basis of Mind (1953) (460)
- Design for a brain: The origin of adaptive behaviour (2nd ed. rev.). (1960) (255)
- Constraint analysis of many-dimensional relations. (1965) (65)
- CHONDRO-OSTEO-DYSTROPHY OF THE HURLER TYPE (GARGOYLISM). A PATHOLOGICAL STUDY (1937) (64)
- Adaptiveness and Equilibrium (1940) (64)
- Design for an Intelligence-Amplifier (1956) (61)
- The nervous system as physical machine; with special reference to the origin of adaptive behaviour. (1947) (49)
- CAN A MECHANICAL CHESS-PLAYER OUTPLAY ITS DESIGNER?* (1952) (38)
- Instability of Pulse Activity in a Net with Threshold (1962) (36)
- On temporal characteristics of behavior in certain complex systems (1966) (31)
- The identification of many-dimensional relations (1972) (31)
- The Physical Origin of Adaptation by Trial and Error (1945) (23)
- What is an intelligent machine? (1961) (22)
- The stability of a randomly assembled nerve-network. (1950) (21)
- The effects of convulsive therapy on the excretion of cortins and ketosteroids. (1949) (21)
- A Quantitative Analysis of the Structure of the Cerebral Cortex (1937) (20)
- Effect of Controls on Stability (1945) (19)
- The Dynamics of Anxiety and Hysteria (1958) (16)
- The application of cybernetics to psychiatry. (1954) (13)
- The effects of nicotinic acid, nicotinamide, and placebo on the chronic schizophrenic. (1960) (13)
- The place of the brain in the natural world. (1967) (13)
- Higher Cerebral Functions and Their Clinical Disorders (1964) (12)
- Mathematical models and computer analysis of the function of the central nervous system. (1966) (11)
- The Self-Reproducing System (1962) (11)
- Risk and Gambling (1957) (8)
- Dynamics of the cerebral cortex; the behavioural properties of systems in equilibrium. (1946) (8)
- The Relativity of ‘Meaning’ (1960) (7)
- The Essential Instability of Systems with Threshold, and some Possible Applications to Psychiatry (1963) (7)
- The effect of prefrontal leucotomy on the psychogalvanic response. (1950) (6)
- The effect of leucotomy on creative ability. (1949) (6)
- Dynamics of the cerebral cortex automatic development of equilibrium in self-organizing systems (1947) (6)
- Introduction à la cybernétique (1958) (6)
- Clinical versus Statistical Prediction (1957) (5)
- Information Processing in Everyday Human Activity (1968) (4)
- SIZE IN MENTAL DEFICIENCY* (1933) (4)
- Biological Time: By Lecomte du Noüy. London: Methuen & Co., pp. 180. Price 7s. 6d. (1937) (4)
- Tissue Culture Methods in the Study of the Nervous System: A Review (1937) (4)
- O agglutinins in enterica carriers (1931) (4)
- Adaptation in the Multistable System (1960) (3)
- A New Mechanism Which Shows Simple Conditioning (1950) (3)
- A clinical trial of covatin on elderly patients with anxiety and restlessness. (1959) (3)
- The Neurological Basis of Behaviour (1958) (3)
- The Cybernetic Viewpoint (1966) (3)
- The effect of electro-convulsive therapy on the psycho-galvanic response. (1954) (3)
- The Brain as Regulator (1960) (2)
- Systems and Information (1963) (2)
- A clinical trial of imipramine ("Tofranil") on depressed patients. (1961) (2)
- THE `PATH' THEORY OF CORTICAL FUNCTION* (1931) (2)
- The mode of action of electro-convulsive therapy. (1953) (2)
- Adrenal cortical function and response to convulsive therapy in a case of periodic catatonia. (1952) (2)
- The Brain of the Mental Defective: Part 3. The Width of the Convolutions in the Normal and Defective Person (1935) (2)
- The Physiological Basis of the Neuroses (1933) (1)
- The Contribution of Information Theory to Pathological Mechanisms in Psychiatry (1968) (1)
- Modern Experiments in Telepathy (1955) (1)
- Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine: By Prof. Norbert Wiener. New York: John Wiley & Sons. London: Chapman & Hall. 1948. Pp. 194 (1949) (1)
- Patterns of Error in the Addition Number Facts (1955) (1)
- INTERIM REPORT TO SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF ADDICTION, MARCH 1960 (1961) (1)
- The Brain of the Mental Defective: A Study of Morphology in its Relation to Intelligence (1934) (1)
- 1. PARAPSYCHOLOGY: Science, Philosophy and ESP. (1968) (1)
- The Organism as Machine (1960) (1)
- The existence of critical levels for the actions of hormones and enzymes, with some therapeutic applications. (1947) (1)
- Energy and signal. (1970) (1)
- Adrenal cortical steroids and the metabolism of glutamic acid in gluconeogenesis. (1949) (1)
- Mechanisms of intelligence : Asbby's writtings on cybernetics (1981) (1)
- New Outlook on Mental Diseases: By F. A. Pickworth. Bristol: John Wright & Sons, 1952. Pp. 296, with 9 plates and 41 illustrations. Price 60s (1952) (1)
- The Ultrastable System (1960) (1)
- Some Notes on the Centrifuge (1940) (0)
- Analytical Biology: By G. Sommerhoff. London : Oxford University Press, 1950. Pp. 208. Price 21s (1952) (0)
- The Relativity of ‘Meaning’ (1960) (0)
- Cell Growth and Cell Function (1951) (0)
- Mitogenetic Analysis of the Excitation of the Nervous System: By Prof. A. G. Gurwitsch. Translated by G. and F. Engel. Amsterdam: N. V. Noord-Hollandsche Uitgeversmaatschappij, 1937. Pp. 141. Price 11s (1937) (0)
- Psychotic and Neurotic Illnesses in Twins: By ELIOT SLATER, with the assistance of JAMES SHIELDS; statistical appendix by JOAN MAY. Medical Research Council, Special Report Series, No. 278. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1953. Pp. 385. 21s (1954) (0)
- Analysis of Perception: By J. R. SMYTHIES, M.A., M.D., M.Sc., D.P.M. Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1956. Pp. 140. Price 21s (1958) (0)
- Pavlov: A Biography (1951) (0)
- The physical foundation of biology (1959) (0)
- The Slide Rule Cursor (1942) (0)
- Ultrastability in the organism. (1960) (0)
- An overview of energy strategies for Jamaica (1981) (0)
- Physiology of Vision (1953) (0)
- Book Reviews (1917) (0)
- Entropies of Partitions (1970) (0)
- Repetitive Stimuli and Habituation (1960) (0)
- Cerebral Mechanisms in Behavior (1953) (0)
- ESP and Personality Patterns (1959) (0)
- The Effects of Constancy (1960) (0)
- The Recurrent Situation (1960) (0)
- Principles for the quantitative study of stability in a dynamic whole system; with some applications to the nervous system. (1946) (0)
- Adaptation in Iterated and Serial Systems (1960) (0)
- Communication, organization, and science (1959) (0)
- Angioma Arteriale Racemosum in an Acallosal Brain: A Clinical and Pathological Report (1931) (0)
- Schizophrenia : Somatic Aspects (1958) (0)
- Effect of prolonged treatment with tranquilizing drugs upon two enzymes of the central nervous system (1958) (0)
- Mechanization of Thought Processes. Symposium at the National Physical Laboratory, 24–27 November, 1958: 2 Vols. H.M.S.O. Pp. 980. Price 50s. (1960) (0)
- Experimental Design in Psychology and the Medical Sciences (1958) (0)
- On the Nature of Inhibition: A Review (1934) (0)
- The Sixth Sense (1960) (0)
- Mathematical Biophysics: By NICHOLAS RASHEVSKY. Chicago, 1939. Pp. 340. Price 18s (1942) (0)
- The State-determined System (1960) (0)
- The Geometry of Mental Measurement (1955) (0)
- The cybernetic origin of habituation (1959) (0)
- Psychometric Methods: By J. P. Guilford. London: The McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1936. Pp. xvi + 566. Price 25s (1937) (0)
- The Measurement of Values . By L. L. Thurstone. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1959. Pp. 322. (1959) (0)
- Book Review:Great Ideas in Information Theory, Language and Cybernetics. Jagjit Singh (1968) (0)
- PAVLOV RECONDITIONED (1957) (0)
- Embodiments of Mind (1966) (0)
- Endocrine Diagnosis: By H. Uck.London and New York: Staples Press, 1951. Pp. 513. Figs. 84. 42s (1951) (0)
- Probability and Scientific Inference (1958) (0)
- The Chemistry of the Brain in the Mental Defective* (1935) (0)
- The Fully-joined System (1960) (0)
- The Electrical Activity of the Nervous System (1952) (0)
- The System with Local Stabilities (1960) (0)
- Psychical Research Today (1955) (0)
- Adaptation as Stability (1960) (0)
- Book review section: The making and cure of human personality (1968) (0)
- Hormones, Psychology and Behaviour (1953) (0)
- Letters to the editor. (1970) (0)
- Dynamics of the cerebral cortex; interrelations between stabilities of parts within a whole dynamic system. (1947) (0)
- PSYCHOLOGY: Psychophysiology of Learning and Memory. (1971) (0)
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