Fig. 3.

Visual cortex activations show preference to passive touch over tactile imagery. Statistical parametric maps for the contrasts between whole-body passive touch and tactile imagery. While passive-touch and mental imagery selective responses were found in the parietal and prefrontal areas, visual cortex activations showed preference to passive touch over mental imagery, and this activations overlapped the dorsal parts of LO (A). In contrast, mental imagery selective activation was found in the parietal and prefrontal cortices (B).