Post by: zahc on December 04, 2007, 07:42:44 AM
Researchers pitted young chimps against human adults in two tests of short-term memory, and overall, the chimps won.
The results challenge the belief that humans are superior to chimpanzees in all cognitive functions, said researcher Tetsuro Matsuzawa of Kyoto University.
"No one can imagine that chimpanzees - young chimpanzees at the age of five - have a better performance in a memory task than humans," he said.
Mr Matsuzawa, a pioneer in studying the mental abilities of chimps, said even he was surprised.
Results of the memory testing showed that while the chimps were no more accurate than humans, they were faster.
One test included three five-year-old chimps who'd been taught the order of Arabic numerals one through nine, and a dozen human volunteers.
They saw nine numbers displayed on a computer screen. When they touched the first number, the other eight turned into white squares. The test was to touch all these squares in the order of the numbers that used to be there.
Even after six months of training, the students still couldn't keep up with their chimpanzee competitors.
Post by: El Tejon on December 04, 2007, 07:44:09 AM
Post by: seeker_two on December 04, 2007, 01:16:13 PM
...and worried they'd lose their jobs to primatization....
Post by: Sergeant Bob on December 04, 2007, 01:31:29 PM
...and worried they'd lose their jobs to primatization....
Groan..............
They should stop teaching the chimpanzees so much. Next thing you know, those [Charlton Heston Voice] Damned Dirty Apes! [/Charlton Heston Voice] will be taking over the world!
Post by: seeker_two on December 05, 2007, 01:47:01 AM
...and worried they'd lose their jobs to primatization....
Groan..............
They should stop teaching the chimpanzees so much. Next thing you know, those [Charlton Heston Voice] Damned Dirty Apes! [/Charlton Heston Voice] will be taking over the world!
Can't wait to hear the illegal aliens protest THAT.....
