Abstract
Although imagery and concreteness ratings are very highly correlated, there are some words which are notably higher in imagery than concreteness and vice versa. Data are presented showing that the former elicit greater emotional reactions and emerge earlier in the history of the language than do the latter. It is argued that these words illustrate a historical process whereby concepts have increasingly referred to exteroceptive rather than interoceptive experience.
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