Figure 2.

Statistical maps showing brain regions activated during listening to familiar action compared with environmental sounds, and during the motor pantomime of action compared with rest (corrected p < 0.05). In both sighted and congenitally blind individual, aural presentation of familiar actions compared with the environmental sounds elicited similar patterns of activation involving a left-lateralized premotor, temporal, and parietal cortical network. Hand motor pantomimes evoked bilateral activations in premotor and sensorimotor areas. Auditory mirror voxels are shown in yellow as overlap between the two task conditions in the bottom row. Spatially normalized activations are projected onto a single-subject left hemisphere template in Talairach space.