In this study, participants performed a sentence–picture veriWcation task in which they read sentences about an agent viewing an object (e.g., moose) through a diVerentially occlusive medium (e.g., clean vs. fogged goggles), and then veriWed whether a subsequently pictured object was mentioned in the previous sentence. Picture veriWcation latencies were shorter when the resolution of the pictured object and the resolution implied by the sentence matched than when they did not. These results suggest that the degree of visibility implied in linguistic context can influence immediate object interpretation. These data suggest that readers mentally simulate the visibility of objects during language comprehension. Thus, the simulation of linguistic descriptions is not limited to the activation of intrinsic object properties (e.g., object shape), but also invokes the perceptibility of referential objects given implied environmental context.