Abstract
Word imageability is known to affect a number of measures related to word memory, learning and processing. Highly imageable words are acquired faster in childhood, remembered better in adults, or processed faster 1-3.
However, some aspects of imageability are not properly understood. In particular, there is little direct evidence that highly imageable words elicit more vivid imagery of word referents.
To address this question, a study previously reported at AMLaP examined the effects of word imageability on decisions about sensory properties of words' referents, confirming that word imageability affects sensory-based semantic decisions, with RTs being shorter for highly imageable words, but only when the sensory question pertained to the object size. The present contribution extends this research with two additional experiments