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Jan 4, 2009: Bouba & Kiki
These two white images have names, one is Bouba and the other is Kiki.
Your assignment, should you choose to accept, is to figure out is which is which.
Congratulations, you said Bouba is on the right and Kiki is on the left, right? er, correct?
| An example of this is the bouba/kiki effect. In an experiment first designed by Wolfgang Köhler, people are asked to choose which of two shapes is named bouba and which kiki. 95% to 98% of people choose kiki for the angular shape and bouba for the rounded one. Individuals on the island of Tenerife showed a similar preference between shapes called takete and maluma. Even 2.5 year-old children (too young to read) show this effect. |
| Ramachandran and Hubbard suggest the kiki/bouba effect has implications for the evolution of language, because the naming of objects is not completely arbitrary. The rounded shape may intuitively be named bouba because the mouth makes a more rounded shape to produce that sound, while a more taut, angular mouth shape is needed to articulate kiki. The sound of K is also harder and more forceful than that of B. Such "synesthesia-like mappings" suggest that this effect might be the neurological basis for sound symbolism, in which sounds are non-arbitrarily mapped to objects and actions in the world. |
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Gravdigr Monday Jan 4 04:14 AM
I would have named them Pointy and Bill.
Gravdigr Monday Jan 4 04:18 AM
Or Bang! and Kapow!
SPUCK Monday Jan 4 04:44 AM
no, no: Bang and Splat
xoxoxoBruce Monday Jan 4 09:15 AM
Sturm & Drang? 
Trilby Monday Jan 4 09:21 AM
Tate and Lyle!
monster Monday Jan 4 10:45 AM
UG and radar!
Sundae Monday Jan 4 12:10 PM
Ouch and anus?
TheMercenary Monday Jan 4 12:18 PM
Hmm. My guess was opposit of the research. I guess I tried to assign them male and female traits to the names and named the pointy one the assumed male name and the other to the other. I am in the 2% group.
monster Monday Jan 4 12:59 PM
yeah, we could have told you that, merc
Cloud Monday Jan 4 01:05 PM
it's "bouba" not "bubba"
whole thing makes perfect sense to me. "kiki" has sharp, staccato sounds which correspond to the sharp, spiky images
Flint Monday Jan 4 01:57 PM
It proves that some of our alphabet symbols are synesthetically derived?
Undertoad Monday Jan 4 02:03 PM
Interesting thought! Did we start with the capital
M
and find that the sound was more "rounded", when we created the lower-case
m
?
TheMercenary Monday Jan 4 02:07 PM
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Originally Posted by monster
yeah, we could have told you that, merc
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1. does that make me a two-percenter?
2. am I on report again?
classicman Monday Jan 4 03:19 PM
Nope - just an extremist 
TheMercenary Monday Jan 4 04:00 PM
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Originally Posted by classicman
Nope - just an extremist
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spudcon Monday Jan 4 04:50 PM
I'm in the 95-98% Group. I wanna be in the 2% group.
classicman Monday Jan 4 06:13 PM
Wait a second here, before I commit is that 2% group at the top or the bottom?
TheMercenary Monday Jan 4 06:24 PM
Depends on who you ask. 
Once they see I am in it.
DanaC Monday Jan 4 06:49 PM
I think that's the group in the cage.
monster Monday Jan 4 08:25 PM
with the t-r-o-l-l
Elspode Monday Jan 4 08:28 PM
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Originally Posted by classicman
Wait a second here, before I commit is that 2% group at the top or the bottom?
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Since boobs are bad, if you picked the rounded shape on the right, you're going to Hell, under current strictures. Sorry, I don't make the rules.
jinx Monday Jan 4 08:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Elspode
Since boobs are bad
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Who is this really?
TheMercenary Monday Jan 4 08:46 PM
Boobs rock. I'm just saying. I have seen a few pairs.
Sundae Tuesday Jan 5 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by DanaC
I think that's the group in the cage.
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Originally Posted by monster
with the t-r-o-l-l
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Elspode Tuesday Jan 5 05:43 PM
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Originally Posted by jinx
Wait, what the fucking hell???
Who is this really? |
xoxoxoBruce Tuesday Jan 5 07:57 PM
They are neither.
TheMercenary Tuesday Jan 5 08:35 PM
When I was in college I had a sticker on my VW that said, "Immoral Minority".
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