Abstract
Word imageability affects a number of measures related to word memory, learning and processing. Highly imageable words are acquired faster, remembered better, and processed faster.
However, some aspects of word imageability are not properly understood, for example, how does it relate to recourses in the cognitive system used for sensory processing? As a first step toward a better understanding, 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.