SciShow Psych: Why Do Some Words Sound So... Lumpy?

Teacher or professor: SciShow Psych
Subject: Psychology
Content of the Lesson: Start learning a new language today with Babbel! Sign up today and get 50% off for 6 months: https://bit.ly/SciShowPsych2. Thank you so much to Babbel for sponsoring this video! Some words just SOUND like the thing they refer to. But are these associations come from the specific culture we were raised in, or is there something more fundamental going on here? Hosted by: Brit Garner ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Jeffrey McKishen, Scott Satovsky Jr, James Knight, Sam Buck, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, Charles George, Christoph Schwanke, Greg, Lehel Kovacs, Bd_Tmprd ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/63979/1/Cuskley_etal_2015.pdf https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27230754/ https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0208874 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02139/full https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0010027712002077 https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/nbbparis/2019/06/28/whats-the-neuroscience-behind-the-bouba-kiki-effect/ http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/103f/58ecef83dae89a221ed7a1d3c7092b7606dd.pdf https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/06/15/1603120113 http://user.keio.ac.jp/~kawahara/pdf/kiyo2019.pdf https://www.nature.com/articles/news050523-9 https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/archive/newsrel/general/RamaMetaphors.asp https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3826064/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19302164/ https://www.jneurosci.org/content/30/18/6205 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811918321141 https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199603329.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199603329-e-043 https://ccuskley.github.io/preprints/OUPChapter43.pdf http://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=8955117&fileOId=8955119 https://www.lexico.com/definition/phonaesthesia https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01246/full https://www.researchgate.net/publication/8239071_Crossmodal_integration_for_perception_and_action https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01593/full http://chip.ucsd.edu/pdf/Synaesthesia%20-%20JCS.pdf http://europepmc.org/backend/ptpmcrender.fcgi?accid=PMC5089906&blobtype=pdf Images: https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/audio-waveform-edge-gm1224223728-359885656 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/cow-and-dog-gm174690949-9984241 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/comic-sound-effect-set-gm494056714-77245995 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/hello-in-many-languages-gm478438526-67799451 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/ooh-i-like-the-look-of-that-gm1132522301-300261208 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angular_gyrus_animation_small.gif https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fusiform_gyrus_animation.gif https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/creative-vector-illustration-line-icon-set-of-five-human-senses-vision-hearing-gm1008495452-272017557 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/clockwork-brains-gm913704858-251506991


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