An overwhelming 98% of people name the curvy figure Booba (rounded edges logically correlate to the soft 'b' and 'o' sounds) and the pointed figure Kiki (sharp edges translated to the hard 'k' sound).
If you agree with the majority, then you too have a mild sense of synesthesia, where your sense of sounds and shapes are cross-activated. This experiment, designed by Wolfgang Kohler, is now known as the Booba-Kiki effect.
Types of Synesthesia
There are a lot more powerful - and surprising - types of synesthestic reactions. These, too, are entirely involuntary -- and synesthetes may assume them to be normal because they've had these cross-associations their whole lives. These dramatic types of synesthesia affect around 4% of the population.
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