fromwww.scientificamerican.com3 hours agoScienceMind-blowing' baby chick study challenges a theory of how humans evolved languageBaby chicks associate the sound 'bouba' with rounded shapes and 'kiki' with spiky shapes, questioning the human-only origin of the bouba-kiki effect.
fromwww.npr.org3 hours agoScienceBaby chicks link certain sounds with shapes, just like humans doBoth humans and newly hatched chicks associate the nonsense word "bouba" with roundness and "kiki" with spikiness, suggesting an innate cross-species sound-shape mapping.
fromwww.scientificamerican.com3 hours agoScienceMind-blowing' baby chick study challenges a theory of how humans evolved language
