Shaking Takete and Flowing Maluma. Non-Sense Words Are Associated with Motion Patterns.

People assign the artificial words takete and kiki to spiky, angular figures and the artificial words maluma and bouba to rounded figures. We examined whether such a cross-modal correspondence could also be found for human body motion. We transferred the body movements of speakers onto two-dimension...

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Main Authors: Markus Koppensteiner, Pia Stephan, Johannes Paul Michael Jäschke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4777495?pdf=render