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Sci & Tech● Low14m ago · Nov 15, 2026, 12:04 PM

The bouba/kiki effect, the extraordinary psychological experiment that has the same results in almost all cultures

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It's more than a curiosity: it could be a clue to unravel the great mystery of how we began to speak.

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