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Chimpanzees have much better short term memories than humans do. If you test them with digits 1-9 sequentially flashed on a screen, they're able to reproduce th
by scarmig 1y ago
Chimpanzees have much better short term memories than humans do. If you test them with digits 1-9 sequentially flashed on a screen, they're able to reproduce the digits with lower loss than undergraduate human students.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-008-0206-8 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-008-0206-8
- BizarroLand 1y agoSo? If I write something down as a child and forget it I can come back 60 years later and know what I wrote down. Chimpanzees can not.
- scarmig 1y agoThe question was whether there are animals who have better memory than humans. I named one: humans are not superior to animals in all cognitive capabilities.
- BizarroLand 1y agoSee Nathan's response. They trained the chimp and threw the humans in blind against them. Like I said, so close as to be almost immeasurable.
- nathan_douglas 1y ago> While the between-species performance difference they report is apparent in their data, so too is a large difference in practice on their task: Ayumu had many sessions of practice on their task before terminal performances were measured; their human subjects had none. The present report shows that when two humans are given practice in the Inoue and Matsuzawa (2007) memory task, their accuracy levels match those of Ayumu. Hmm.