The bouba–kiki effect or takete–maluma phenomenon is a non-arbitrary mental association between certain speech sounds and certain visual shapes. The most typical research finding is that people, when presented with nonsense words, tend to associate certain "soft" sounds with a rounded shape and other "hard" sounds with a spiky shape. Its discovery dates back to the 1920s, when psychologists documented experimental participants as connecting nonsense words to shapes in consistent ways.
The Illusion of Clarity • Ness Labs
The illusion of clarity is the confident feeling that you understand something, when in reality your grasp is full of gaps you’ve never noticed.
A foundation model of vision, audition, and language for in-silico neuroscience | Research - AI at Meta
Cognitive neuroscience is fragmented into specialized models, each tailored to specific experimental paradigms, hence preventing a unified model of...
Special Dyslexia Fonts Are Based on Voodoo Pseudoscience
Link to: https://www.edutopia.org/article/do-dyslexia-fonts-actually-work
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Money Illusion
Abstract. The term “money illusion” refers to a tendency to think in terms of nominal rather than real monetary values. Money illusion has significant impl
Cuelume. Interaction sounds for the web
Cuelume is a tiny, dependency-free library of carefully designed interaction sounds, synthesized live with Web Audio.
The Waluigi Effect (mega-post) — LessWrong
Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. — Carl Jung …
Matt Darling (@besttrousers)
“Darling’s thesis is the first compelling explanation I’ve seen for the vibecession…What surprises me, though, is how comparatively little attention this theory has gotten”. I am being silenced.
The phonology of sperm whale coda vowels
Abstract. Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) communicate using series of clicks known as codas. In previous research, sperm whale codas have been shown
Talking in a room with no name. - We Can Just Do Things
"Bluesky" can mean at least four different things depending on the context. What do we mean exactly?
Each time someone says "Bluesky" and means one specific thing—or all four things at once—the conceptual fog thickens.
Talking in a room with no name.
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