Visuo-motor imagery of specific manual actions: A multi-variate pattern analysis fMRI study

► We applied fMRI with MVPA to investigate coding of imagined and performed actions. ► Left anterior parietal cortex showed common imagined-performed coding for specific actions. ► Action-specific representations can be elicited by imagery alone. ► Apparent visuo-motor coding-by a human 'mirror neuron system'-may partially be driven by imagery.