Dogs seem to agree with humans that 'bouba' is round and 'kiki' is spiky

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The idea here was to remove any owner cues the dogs might have been following. Setup of the experiment with the two screens, and steps of the computational analyses with dog's head detection and angular vision detection. (Biffi et al. , Proc. B, 2026)Overall, "dogs looked significantly more at the rounded shape while 'Bouba' was played, and they looked at and explored the spiky shape when 'Kiki' was played," Biffi and team report. The main difference between the two experiments was that dogs in study 1 showed a general bias toward looking at the spiky shapes.

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