The study found that eleven out of the twelve patients had more accuracy when reading words with high imageability.

The difficulty of deep dyslexics in reading abstract words has been referred to as the "imageability effect".

In the same book, Lynch also coined the words "imageability" and "wayfinding".

These pairs were chosen to be balanced for frequency, imageability, etc., in the same way as if selected for human subjects.

The more rostral medial lobe response to noun imageability has not been observed previously.

The book introduces many innovative science-based ways of approaching design, and opposes abstract or formal methods based on imageability.

Their imageability is increased if the collective imageable space of districts, edges, nodes and landmarks is distinctive.

A study done by Crisp and Lambon Ralph concluded that imageability has a significant effect on phonological dyslexia.

Initially it was believed that the factor causing phonological dyslexia was lexicality; however, other factors such as imageability and concreteness also play a critical role in reading.

Paradoxically, achieving this connective human quality has also moved his buildings away from the abstract imageability valued in contemporary architecture, and this is one reason why his buildings are under-appreciated at present.

Activity increased with noun imageability in the left mid-fusiform gyrus, the lateral parahippocampal area in humans, and in the rostral medial temporal lobes close to or within perirhinal cortex.

While the above findings suggest that highly concrete words are equally well recognised in left and right hemispheres, it is conceivable that the relevant factor is not concreteness or imageability, per se, but some other factor which co-varies with imageability.