Motor familiarity: Brain activation when watching kinematic displays of one's own movements

► We manipulated observers' familiarity with the presented point-light displays. ► Observers watched four markers representing an opposing table tennis player. ► In some trials the kinematic information originated from strokes of the observers. ► Results showed that observers performed better when observing their “own” strokes. ► BOLD-response was found higher in the angular gyrus and the medial frontal cortex.