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Modern communication: exploring physiological transmission through tech-savvy analogies
Author(s) -
Christopher R. Hollabaugh,
Mark A. Milanick
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
ajp advances in physiology education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1522-1229
pISSN - 1043-4046
DOI - 10.1152/advan.00071.2013
Subject(s) - toilet , jargon , action (physics) , analogy , grasp , key (lock) , mathematics education , computer science , psychology , epistemology , medicine , philosophy , linguistics , physics , computer security , pathology , quantum mechanics , programming language
analogies are often helpful for students to grasp key physiological concepts; sometimes the technical jargon makes the concept seem more complex than it actually is. Here, we provide several analogies for information transfer processes that sometimes confuse students. For an analogy to be useful, of

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