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School shootings: Making sense of the senseless

Article history: School shootings have alter Received 4 December 2007 Received in revised form 17 December 2008 Accepted 20 January 2009 Available online 24 January 2009

Editorial Board

Editorial Board

Editorial Board

in the name of God, most gracious, most merciful Physiology and Pharmacology Indexing: Index Copernicus (IC), Scientific Information Database (SID) Physiology and Pharmacology is the official publication of the Iranian Society of Physiology and Pharmacology. The journal publishes full-length original articles in physiology, pharmacology and related subjects. Editorial office: ...

Reading senseless sentences: brain potentials reflect semantic incongruity.

In a sentence reading task, words that occurred out of context were associated with specific types of event-related brain potentials. Words that were physically aberrant (larger than normal) elecited a late positive series of potentials, whereas semantically inappropriate words elicited a late negative wave (N400). The N400 wave may be an electrophysiological sign of the "reprocessing" of seman...