Most participants said the rounder shape was bouba and the pointy one was kiki.

实验者表示，圆点是bouba，尖点是kiki。

Which means that bouba and kiki will not be the last word.

这意味着bouba和kiki不会是最后定论。

Participants were told to look at the two shapes and then listen to the sound: either bouba or kiki.

实验者被要求看着这两个形状，然后听声: bouba或kiki。

But those less common, hard-wired cross-modal connections like bouba and kiki are where a lot of exciting research is taking place.

但是像波巴和奇奇这样不太常见跨模态连接，是许令人兴奋研究正在考察内容。

Like, the movement of someone's lips and tongue in some vowels maps onto the more rounded shape associated with " bouba" in the experiments.

例如，在实验中，某人嘴唇和舌头发某些元动映射到与“波巴”相关更圆形状上。

And multiple experiments show that on average, 95% of people guess that " bouba" is the lumpy one and " kiki" refers to the spiky one.

然后告诉他们，在火星语中，其中一个形状叫“波巴”，另一个叫“奇奇”，个实验表明，平均来说，95% 人猜测“波巴”是块状，“奇奇”是尖形。

It happens because the brain is using multiple senses to understand what's going on like how someone uses sight and hearing to decide which shape is bouba or kiki.

这是因为脑使用种感官来理解发生了什么，比如人们如何利用视觉和听觉来决定波巴或奇奇。

She says that if you were to look at the words bouba and kiki, which are totally made up, one possible explanation for the effect could be the appearance of the letters.

她表示，如果你看一下bouba和kiki这两个词，它们完全是虚构，对这种效应一个可能解释可能是字母出现。

First, you show people — specifically, hearing folks — a lumpy shape and a jagged shape, and you tell them that, in Martian, one of those shapes is called " bouba" and the other is called " kiki."

首先，你让人们，特别是听力正常人，看一个块状和锯齿状形状。