ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2022
Bo-NO-bouba-kiki: picture-word mapping but no spontaneous sound symbolic speech-shape mapping in a language trained bonobo.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Resolving the bouba-kiki effect enigma by rooting iconic sound symbolism in physical properties of round and spiky objects.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Evidence for compositionality in baboons (Papio papio) through the test case of negation.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Great ape communication as contextual social inference: a computational modelling perspective.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Is Reduced Visual Processing the Price of Language?Brain sciences · 2022Article
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Abstract
Humans share the ability to intuitively map 'sharp' or 'round' pseudowords, such as 'bouba' versus 'kiki', to abstract edgy versus round shapes, respectively. This effect, known as sound symbolism, appears early in human development. The phylogenetic origin of this phenomenon, however, is unclear: are humans the only species capable of experiencing correspondences between speech sounds and shapes, or could similar effects be observed in other animals? Thus far, evidence from an
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