… ”); 8% (5/58) reported associating Kiki or Bouba with a name and their object choice was … eg “Kiki is a female name so I chose the rounded shape as Kiki”) or attributes (eg “Kiki sounded …
We investigated whether there are reliable crossmodal associations between foods/flavours and words in neurologically normal individuals. Participants were given a range of foods to …
Adult listeners systematically associate certain speech sounds with round or spiky shapes, a sound-symbolic phenomenon known as the “bouba-kiki effect.” In this study, we investigate …
… demonstrated the Bouba–Kiki effect in the … ‘Kiki’ or the name ‘Bouba’, the rounded shapes were more often associated with the name ‘Bouba’ and the spiky shapes with the name ‘Kiki’. …
The crossmodal correspondence between some speech sounds and some geometrical shapes, known as the bouba-kiki (BK) effect, constitutes a remarkable exception to the general …
Well-known as a sculptor, Kiki Smith has also worked extensively as a printmaker--in fact her printed works and other editioned art, including books and multiples, are arguably as …
… Aiming to refine what, exactly, constitutes the visual object properties in the bouba-kiki effect, the real-world object task probes whether sound symbolic effects found in bouba-kiki tasks …
Western participants consistently match certain shapes with particular speech sounds, tastes, and flavours. Here we demonstrate that the “Bouba-Kiki effect”, a well-known shape–…
Sound to meaning correspondences in spoken language are assumed to be largely arbitrary. However, research has identified a number of exceptions to the arbitrariness assumption. …
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