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Comment by whacked_new

19 years ago

Related to this topic is the famous kiki / bouba study, where certain word pronunciations are found to naturally sound "sharper" or "rounder."

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect

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dood  19 years ago

You can watch Ramachandran explain this and much more of his research into synaesthesia and the brain in this excellent talk: [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4684607596399338611]

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