Role Of Mental Imagery In A Property

on is distributed across distinct attribute domains, such as vision, touch, and action (Allport, 1985). Numerous investigators have drawn distinctions between visual knowledge and nonvisual (e.g., functional) knowledge, in areas ranging from language acquisition (e.g., Gentner, 1978; Nelson, COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY, 2003, 20 (3/4/5/6), 525--540 # 2003 Psychology Press Ltd http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pp/02643294.html DOI:10.1080/02643290244000257 525 Requests for reprints should be addressed to Irene P. Kan, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 3815 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6196, USA (Email: [email protected]). Supported by grants from National Institute of Health (NIH R01 MH60414) and Searle Scholars Program awarded to STS, and grant from National Science Foundation (SBR-9905024) awarded to LWB.We thank Jessica Pickard for assistance with data collection, Geoff Aguirre and Joseph Kable for assistance with data analysis, and two anonymous revie