Motor imagery is widely used to study cognitive aspects of the neural control of action.
However, what is exactly simulated during motor imagery is still a matter of debate. On the
one hand, it is conceivable that motor imagery is an embodied cognitive process, involving a
simulation of movements of one's own body. The alternative possibility is that, although
motor imagery relies on knowledge of the motor processes, it does not entail an actual motor
simulation that is influenced by the physical configuration of one's own body. Here we …