bouba/kiki effect

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Bouba and kiki were the pseudowords used in a 2001 experiment on this topic, carried out by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Edward Hubbard. See picture.

Noun

the bouba/kiki effect

  1. A non-arbitrary mapping between speech sounds and the visual shape of objects.
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