This paper investigates whether the bouba-kiki effect (Ramachandran and Hubbard, 2001) does appear in the behavior of native Brazilian Portuguese (BP) speakers during a free naming task of picture pairs. We carried out a written production experiment with BP speakers....
Experiment 1 examined whether the shape representation of a closed region is affected when (the percept of) the region changes from a material object to a hole. Participants performed a shape–name matching task, which consisted of a version of the classic Bouba/Kiki task (Köhler, 1929; Ram...
The hand-sound pairing (e.g left-bouba, right-kiki) remained the same through the whole experiment, and hence the hand-shape pairing was inverted between congruent and incongruent blocks. The hands associated to bouba and kiki pseudowords were counterbalanced across participants. 3.1.3. ...
You might’ve seen people online debating whether things like actors or animals are “bouba” or “kiki.” These are nonsense words that people say feel either “round” or “sharp,” and they’ve caused a bit of a ruckus on social media. So which word are you? Bouba, or kiki? Answe...