Chimps Beat Humans in Numbers Recall Video Game
Dec 5 at 5:05pm by Aileen
Tetsuro Matsuzawa of Kyoto University has once again embarrassed humans by testing chimpanzees against human adults on ‘working memory’. The chimps consistently beat college students in a computer game of remembering numbers, using the same test for both the chimps and the students. As Matsuzawa said…
“No one can imagine that chimpanzees — young chimpanzees at the age of 5 — have a better performance in a memory task than humans,” he said. “Here we show for the first time that young chimpanzees have an extraordinary working memory capability for numerical recollection — better than that of human adults tested in the same apparatus, following the same procedure.”
The research was published in the journal Current Biology.
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Newsweek: Young chimp beats college students
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