We investigated whether motor experience with artificial movement trajectories of meaningless objects affects how these trajectories are later perceptually processed within the human brain. During observation of artificial object movements ten participants (experimental group) actively imitated the trajectories during motor training and ten participants (control group) solved a working-memory task without motor training. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, hemodynamic responses were recorded before and after the intervention while participants observed the movements and either had to detect color changes of the objects (color task, motor-irrelevant) or had to judge whether the movement pattern could be imitated with human hands (simulation task, motor-relevant). The between group comparison of the post-intervention hemodynamic responses revealed stronger activity for the motor training than for the control group in motor-related areas (supplementary motor area, inferior parietal lobe) during the simulation but not during the color task. The control group did not reveal any stronger activity than the motor training group for either task. The results suggest that motor training has task specific effects on neural processes that are involved in perception of movements and indicate that motor-related areas can be triggered by observed artificial object movements but only if a motor-relevant task is pursued.