Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Wicked Smart Chimps

So apparently chimps have photographic short term memories? Researchers at Kyoto University taught these chimps the numbers 1-9 (or at least what they look like and what order they go in), flashed numbers on a screen, then had them play Memory by hitting the covered-up boxes in the right order of the numbers that used to be there. Like, instantaneously.

Check it out:

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