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dc.contributor.authorMargiotoudi, Konstantina
dc.contributor.authorBohn, Manuel
dc.contributor.authorSchwob, Natalie
dc.contributor.authorTaglialatela, Jared
dc.contributor.authorPulvermüller, Friedemann
dc.contributor.authorEpping, Amanda
dc.contributor.authorSchweller, Ken
dc.contributor.authorAllritz, Matthias
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-08T11:30:11Z
dc.date.available2022-02-08T11:30:11Z
dc.date.issued2022-02-09
dc.identifier.citationMargiotoudi , K , Bohn , M , Schwob , N , Taglialatela , J , Pulvermüller , F , Epping , A , Schweller , K & Allritz , M 2022 , ' Bo-NO-bouba-kiki : picture-word mapping but no spontaneous sound symbolic speech-shape mapping in a language trained bonobo ' , Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences , vol. 289 , no. 1968 , 20211717 . https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1717en
dc.identifier.issn0962-8452
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 277723383
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: b4e252dc-bd83-45d9-a89b-9bd6ec13a30e
dc.identifier.otherJisc: 8c3f85047a1b4ff6886c991264f04391
dc.identifier.otherpublisher-id: rspb20211717
dc.identifier.otherPubMed: 35105236
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000749623800012
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85124059176
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/24821
dc.descriptionThis work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy through EXC 2025/1 ‘Matters of Activity (MoA)’ and by the ‘The Sound of Meaning (SOM)’, Pu 97/22–1 and ‘Phonological Networks (PhoNet)’, Pu 97/25-1. K.M. was supported by the Berlin School of Mind and Brain, by the Onassis foundation, and by the Fyssen foundation. M.A. was supported by the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC grant agreement no. 609819, SOMICS.en
dc.description.abstractHumans share the ability to intuitively map ‘sharp’ or ‘round’ pseudowords, such as ‘bouba’ versus ‘kiki’, to abstract edgy versus round shapes, respectively. This effect, known as sound symbolism, appears early in human development. The phylogenetic origin of this phenomenon, however, is unclear: are humans the only species capable of experiencing correspondences between speech sounds and shapes, or could similar effects be observed in other animals? Thus far, evidence from an implicit matching experiment failed to find evidence of this sound symbolic matching in great apes, suggesting its human uniqueness. However, explicit tests of sound symbolism have never been conducted with nonhuman great apes. In the present study, a language-competent bonobo completed a cross-modal matching-to-sample task in which he was asked to match spoken English words to pictures, as well as ‘sharp’ or ‘round’ pseudowords to shapes. Sound symbolic trials were interspersed among English words. The bonobo matched English words to pictures with high accuracy, but did not show any evidence of spontaneous sound symbolic matching. Our results suggest that speech exposure/comprehension alone cannot explain sound symbolism. This lends plausibility to the hypothesis that biological differences between human and nonhuman primates could account for the putative human specificity of this effect.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciencesen
dc.rightsCopyright © 2022 The Authors. Open Access. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.en
dc.subjectNeuroscience and cognitionen
dc.subjectResearch articlesen
dc.subjectSound symbolismen
dc.subjectLanguage evolutionen
dc.subjectKanzien
dc.subjectBouba-kikien
dc.subjectQL Zoologyen
dc.subjectBF Psychologyen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subject.lccQLen
dc.subject.lccBFen
dc.titleBo-NO-bouba-kiki : picture-word mapping but no spontaneous sound symbolic speech-shape mapping in a language trained bonoboen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorEuropean Research Councilen
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Organic Semiconductor Centreen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscienceen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1717
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.urlhttps://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.18737487.v1en
dc.identifier.grantnumber609819en


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