Undergraduate medical students' empathy: current perspectives

Thelma Quince, Pia Thiemann, John Benson, Sarah Hyde Primary Care Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Abstract: Empathy is important to patient care.It enhances patients’ satisfaction, comfort, self-efficacy, and trust which in turn may facilitate better diagno

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Through the Flat Canvas: The Motor Meaning of Realistic Paintings

It is well known that common objects in the environment can evoke possibilities of action, but what about their bi-dimensional representation? Do pictures or paintings that represent action-related objects evoke the same possibilities of actions of the objects that they represent? In contemporary cognitive science, there are two contrasting views o

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