From the article: Without being told which shape was which,
> 95% to 98% selected the curvy shape as "bouba" and the jagged one as "kiki", suggesting that the human brain somehow attaches abstract meanings to the shapes and sounds in a consistent way
So apart from visually impaired (from birth) people, we may have a pattern in mapping shapes to phonemes.
> 95% to 98% selected the curvy shape as "bouba" and the jagged one as "kiki", suggesting that the human brain somehow attaches abstract meanings to the shapes and sounds in a consistent way
So apart from visually impaired (from birth) people, we may have a pattern in mapping shapes to phonemes.