Figure 3.

Neural activations of SI and SII while participants observed a touched hand relative to a nontouched hand. (A) Activations are superimposed on the MNI reference brain. Both perspectives yielded comparable neural activations in left SI and right SII. (B) Contrast of parameter estimates for SI and SII. Plots show parameter estimates of the relative activation compared to baseline for the five conditions (ego‐observ_touch = observing touch with egocentric view; ego‐observ_nontouch = observing nontouch with egocentric view; allo‐observ_touch = observing touch with allocentric view; allo‐observ_nontouch = observing nontouch with allocentric view; tactile = real tactile stimulation). [Color figure can be viewed in the online issue, which is available at www.interscience.wiley.com.]