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2023, Number 2

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Simulación Clínica 2023; 5 (2)

Mirror neurons and neural systems associated with clinical learning. A review of the literature

Orquera P, Valenzuela JJ, Orellana-Donoso M, Gold M, Abascal N

Language: Spanish
References: 60
Page: 60-74
PDF size: 311.49 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Introduction: mirror neurons (MN) have been suggested to play a fundamental role in higher order social processes, including motor learning, understanding action, imitation learning, taking perspective, understanding facial emotions, and empathy. However, there are still no studies that evaluate and demonstrate an important role of MN in imitation learning in instances such as clinical simulation for university students of health-sciences majors. Objective: to describe how some neural mechanisms can contribute to imitation based learning and discuss their role in clinical simulation. Material and methods: a systematic search was carried out in electronic databases, in order to compile the available literature on the subject. Results: twenty-two articles were included after applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Seven articles addressed the learning process through mirror neurons, seven addressed learning through imitation and two more treated sensorimotor learning through MN. Conclusions: although it seems that the MN system has implications that could underlie clinical simulation-based learning, more primary studies with high methodological rigor and experiments are needed to measure the activity of the MN system in clinical simulation-based learning and its role in order to establish more concrete conclusions.


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