Table III.

Different kinds of contrasts and number of experiments using them within each movement observation category

Contrast	Moving social > static social	Moving social > moving non‐social	Moving social > static non‐social	Moving social > blank	Passive observation	Task	Static social > static non social
Isolated process	Human movement	Human form and movement	Human form and movement + non‐specific movement	Human form and movement + non‐specific form and movement	Free attention	Attention to the effector	Human form
Body	3	10	4	3	9	11	–
Hand	6	3	1	4	8	6	–
Hand‐object	5	4	5	7	10	11	6
Faces	14	4	1	2	10	10	16