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The distribution of muscular action potentials during imaging

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Accepted for publication by Dr. B. F. Skinner, March 26, 1938.

This paper has been rewritten from a master’s thesis on file at the Indiana University Library.

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Shaw, W.A. The distribution of muscular action potentials during imaging. Psychol Rec 2, 195–216 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03393216

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