It's strange. I tend to do a lot of reasoning with image components, even if they are abstract to the point of not really being a metaphor anymore -- and when brain storming sometimes will say "No it needs to be rounder" about a DB schema, or use hand motions to place items "where they go" as I describe them. (Oddly, if I put something that "goes" top left in say, bottom left, it doesn't feel right). This flabbergasts and confuses people. To the point that I almost can't communicate w/out a whiteboard sometimes. Other people totally get it and even "put things" in the right place, and we'll mutually "rearrange" them as we talk.

Anyway I digress, the article reminds me of this bit by Feynman actually: http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/607/2/Feynman.pdf