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ArticleNature2026

Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain.

Nicholas Hedger, Thomas Naselaris, Kendrick Kay, Tomas Knapen

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Article in Nature, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Nicholas HedgerCentre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics, University of Reading, Reading, UK. n.hedger@reading.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-2733-1913
Thomas NaselarisCenter for Magnetic Resonance Research, Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Kendrick KayCenter for Magnetic Resonance Research, Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Tomas KnapenSpinoza Centre for Neuroimaging, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. tknapen@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0001-5863-8689

Funding

Seen and mental images in visual cortexR01EY023384 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI HERMES, DORA, NASELARIS, THOMAS P · 2014 to 2025
$3.4M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY023384
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Our sensory systems work together to generate a cohesive experience of the world around us. Watching others being touched activates brain areas representing our own sense of touch: the visual system recruits touch-related computations to simulate bodily consequences of visual inputs

Indexed as

BrainBrain MappingTouchTouch PerceptionVision, OcularVisual PerceptionAdultFemaleHumansMaleModels, NeurologicalSomatosensory CortexVisual FieldsYoung Adult

Identifiers

PMID41299177
PMCPMC12872459

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