arXiv:2509.23108v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Can visual imagery be driven solely by language? This idea goes against cognitive science's traditional view that visual mental imagery is only possible through pictorial representations. Large Language Models (LLMs) provide nascent evidence not only that visual mental imagery via propositional-representations is possible, but that it can be more robust than human imagination. We created dozens of novel items for an extension to a classic task which is argued to be solvable exclusively via pictorial representations (i.e., language alone would
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