Seeing and feeling for self and other: Proprioceptive spatial location determines multisensory enhancement of touch

► Vision of the body modulates tactile perception. ► Differences between viewing one's own and someone else's body poorly investigated. ► Visuo-spatial manipulation of the Visual Enhancement of Touch effect. ► Representation of one's own body is fundamentally spatial in nature. ► Representation of others relies on a simple mechanism of analogy.