If you were told: in this picture there are two shapes: Bouba and Kiki. Which one is which? How would you pick? Apparently I fall into the standard response for this, but it is fascinating to me how our brain is wired that way.
Jason St-Cyr :mstdn: on Nostr: Anybody else heard of this Bouba-Kiki effect before? This came up in some article I ...
Anybody else heard of this Bouba-Kiki effect before? This came up in some article I was reading (so of course I had to go dive down and learn more). Apparently, our minds will automatically, across many languages and regions, associate shapes with these sounds.
If you were told: in this picture there are two shapes: Bouba and Kiki. Which one is which? How would you pick? Apparently I fall into the standard response for this, but it is fascinating to me how our brain is wired that way.
If you were told: in this picture there are two shapes: Bouba and Kiki. Which one is which? How would you pick? Apparently I fall into the standard response for this, but it is fascinating to me how our brain is wired that way.