article_snippet.sent: Children of the 1970s and 1980s will likely remember the chunky, plastic Fisher-Price magnets that adorned fridges in family homes.
article_snippet.sent: The popular toys were designed to help teach children to read and spell.
article_snippet.sent: But for some people, The popular toys had another unintended consequence; the magnets forever changed the colours that people would associate with letters.
article_snippet.sent: The child with the hood in this photo colour-letter pairings matched 25 of the 26 letters in the Fisher-Price magnet set, which is in the foreground .
article_snippet.sent: The latest study adds to that body of work by suggesting the toy caused a generation to foreever link A with red, F with purple and P with green.
article_snippet.sent: Researchers from the Department of Psychology at Stanford University then compared these colour-letter matches to fridge magnets sold by Fisher-Price between 1971 and 1990.
article_snippet.sent: The results revealed that at least six per cent (400 out of the 6588 participants) learnt 'many of their matches' from the Fisher-Price set.
article_snippet.sent: Fig C shows when the choice does not match the toy (bottom row) Red bars show proportion of participants with 10 or more matches to the magnet set.
article_snippet.sent: But among those born five years or more before it was manufactured, none of the colour-letter matches were aligned with the colours used in the set. '
article_snippet.sent: The authors did point out, however, that there may have been other cues – such as cultural influences, or other popular toys or magnet sets that played a role.
article_snippet.sent: The authors did point out that there may have been other cues – such as cultural influences, or other popular toys or magnet sets that played a role .
highlights_snippet.sent: Scientists then compared these colour-letter matches to Fisher-Price magnets .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Scientists claim 6% of people learnt Scientists matches from the Fisher-Price toy .