Jan 4, 2009: Bouba & Kiki

xoxoxoBruce · 01-04-2010, 12:05 AM

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?

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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.

Although that may not be true on the board.

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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.

So now you know why boobs are boobs.

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Gravdigr · 01-04-2010, 03:14 AM

I would have named them Pointy and Bill.

Gravdigr · 01-04-2010, 03:18 AM

Or Bang! and Kapow!

SPUCK · 01-04-2010, 03:44 AM

no, no: Bang and Splat

xoxoxoBruce · 01-04-2010, 08:15 AM

Sturm & Drang?

Trilby · 01-04-2010, 08:21 AM

Tate and Lyle!

monster · 01-04-2010, 09:45 AM

UG and radar!

Sundae · 01-04-2010, 11:10 AM

Ouch and anus?

TheMercenary · 01-04-2010, 11:18 AM

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 · 01-04-2010, 11:59 AM

yeah, we could have told you that, merc

Cloud · 01-04-2010, 12:05 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 · 01-04-2010, 12:57 PM

It proves that some of our alphabet symbols are synesthetically derived?

Undertoad · 01-04-2010, 01:03 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 · 01-04-2010, 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by monster

yeah, we could have told you that, merc

1. does that make me a two-percenter?
2. am I on report again?

classicman · 01-04-2010, 02:19 PM

Nope - just an extremist

01-04-2010, 03:14 AM	#2
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01-04-2010, 03:18 AM	#3
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Or Bang! and Kapow! __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

01-04-2010, 08:15 AM	#5
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01-04-2010, 08:21 AM	#6
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01-04-2010, 09:45 AM	#7
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01-04-2010, 03:44 AM	#4
SPUCK Professor Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,911	no, no: Bang and Splat

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01-04-2010, 11:18 AM	#9
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	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. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

01-04-2010, 11:59 AM	#10
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01-04-2010, 12:05 PM	#11
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	it's "bouba" not "bubba" whole thing makes perfect sense to me. "kiki" has sharp, staccato sounds which correspond to the sharp, spiky images __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

01-04-2010, 12:57 PM	#12
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01-04-2010, 01:03 PM	#13
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Interesting thought! Did we start with the capital M and find that the sound was more "rounded", when we created the lower-case m ?

01-04-2010, 02:19 PM	#15
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Nope - just an extremist __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

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