Young chimps apparently have an extraordinary ability to remember numerals, and recall them even better than human adults do.
Although researchers have extensively studied chimpanzee memory in the past, the general assumption has been that it is inferior to that of humans, as with many other mental functions.
"There are still many people, including many biologists, who believe that humans are superior to chimpanzees in all cognitive functions," said researcher Tetsuro Matsuzawa, director of the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University in Japan. "No one can imagine that chimpanzees — young chimpanzees at the age of 5 — have a better performance in a memory task than humans."
Source: FOXNEWS
No comments:
Post a Comment