Three theoretical positions are available to those who attempt to present physiological correlates of ' mental' activity. The first position is one of long experimental standing, that which postulates a close if not an exact correspondence between peripheral (muscular) activity and 'mental' phenomena. The second position is one of equally long standing (although precise, experimental approaches are fairly modern), that which postulates a close if not an exact correspondence between central (cerebral) activity and 'mental' phenomena. The third position is one which straddles the fence, so to speak, and sees 'mental' phenomena as a total organismic process involving both central and peripheral physiological mechanisms.The bolstering of all these viewpoints has become easier with the development of modern electrophysiological techniques which enable the investigator to record fairly localized physiological phenomena, in the intact human organism, under a veriety of controlled laboratory conditions.Several investigators have used electrophysiological techniques in the study of the relationship between 'mental' activity and peripheral activity. These workers have presented a considerable body of evidence indicating that mus-1 This study is the first of a series of papers bea ring upon this general topic under the direction of Dr. John R. Knott in the laboratories of the Department of Psychology in the State University of Iowa.
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