Imagery Control is used in all walks of life to improve performance.
Actually, the matter of control has some very powerful prospects for self-improvement and performance. In sports for example, I have heard an Olympic broad-jump champion describe how he would image his run and his leap in detail before doing it.
There are (see the Notes) accounts of how basketball performance has been improved through imagery. Imagery is also used in improving sales, public speaking and overall self concept.
Our focus here, however, is the role of imagery in problem solving. The particular problem facing young children learning language is why are two different things given the same name? What do they have common?
To answer this they must abstract the bonds from one object and match them with the bonds of another.
NOTES: Here is an account of imagery and basketball performance.
NOTES: Here is imagery for improving everything.