Bo-NO-bouba-kiki: Picture-word mapping but not sound symbolic speech-shape mapping in a language trained bonobo

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Here you find all data files and analysis scripts associated with the study.

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Publication:

Margiotoudi, K., Bohn M., Schwob, N., Taglialatela, J., Pulvermüller, F., Epping, A., Schweller, K., & Allritz, M. (2021) Bo-NO-bouba-kiki: Picture-word mapping but no spontaneous sound symbolic speech-shape mapping in a language trained bonobo. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 298, 20211717.

Pre-registration for the methods and the analyses can be found here.

Repository structure

• The data set can be found in data/

• Analysis code can be found in analysis/

  • analysis.pdf presents the supplementary material associated with the study

  • analysis.Rmd contains the code for all analyses reported in the paper and the supplementary material

  • power_analysis.Rmd contains code for the power analysis

  • Model outputs are saved as .rds files in a saves/

  • Figure 2 from the paper is saved in figures/

• A short video of Kanzi doing the task can be found in video/