Bouba Ndjida
Bouba may refer to: * Bouba/kiki effect, an observed neurophysiological effect tying certain sounds to specific shapes * ''Bouba (TV series)'', a.k.a. ''Jacky and Jill'', or '' Monarch: The Big Bear of Tallac'', a Japanese anime television series in the late 1970s * Yaws See also *Buba (other) *Booba (born 1976), A French rapper *''Boohbah ''Boohbah'' is a British preschool television series created by Anne Wood and produced by Wood's company, Ragdoll Productions, in association with GMTV. It originally premiered on ITV on 14 April 2003. The series was later broadcast on Ni ...

Bouba/kiki Effect
The bouba/kiki effect is a non-arbitrary mapping between speech sounds and the visual shape of objects. It was first documented by Wolfgang Köhler in 1929 using nonsense words. The effect has been observed in American university students, Tamil speakers in India, young children, and infants, and has also been shown to occur with familiar names. It is absent in individuals who are congenitally blind and reduced in some autistic children. The effect was investigated using fMRI in 2018. The bouba/kiki effect is one form of sound symbolism. Research Discovery This effect was first observed by Georgian psychologist Dimitri Uznadze in a 1924 paper. He conducted an experiment with 10 participants who were given a list with nonsense words, shown 6 drawings for 5 seconds each, then had to pick a name for the drawing from the list of given words. He describes the different “strategies” participants developed to match words to drawings and quotes their reasoning. He also describes sit ...
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The Big Bear Of Tallac
''The'' () is a grammatical Article (grammar), article in English language, English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the Most common words in English, most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant s ...
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