Two experiments provide evidence that information about the real-life
size of objects is elicited by nouns. A priming paradigm was used with a
category membership verification task. The results showed that targets
were responded to faster when preceded by a same-size prime, and that
large entities were processed faster than small ones. Overall, our
results significantly extend previous work on perceptual information
elicited by concepts (e. g., Zwaan & Yaxley, 2004) and, in
particular, on size information (e. g., Rubinstein & Henik, 2002) by
means of a size-unrelated paradigm.