Abstract
While there is some evidence that active imagination attenuates brain responses to sensory stimuli, it is not clear whether word imageability may modulate the strength of this effect.As a first step toward a better understanding of the relation between internal imagery and the cognitive response to external sensory stimulation, we aim to investigate (1) whether word imageability is related to the word's ability to facilitate decisions about sensory properties of the word referent, and (2) whether the effect is modulated by the presence or absence of a concurrently presented visual stimulus.