Minimising motor mimicry by myself: Self-focus enhances online action control mechanisms under motor contagion Stephanie Spengler 1* , Marcel Brass 2 , Simone Kuehn 2 & Simone Schuetz-Bosbach 1 1 Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Independent Junior Research Group Body & Self, Leipzig, Germany 2 Ghent University, Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent, Belgium Running title: self-focus minimises motor mimicry Keywords: mirroring, automatic imitation, medial prefrontal cortex, self-referential, self- awareness, social psychology * corresponding author: Stephanie Spengler, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstr.1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany, e-mail: spengler@cbs.mpg.de, Tel: ++49 (0) 341 99402674, Fax: ++49 (0) 341 99402204