Website review: Aping around with numbers
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majakka discovered 7 months ago- From the page: "It was found that the chimp infants performed more quickly and with more accuracy than their mothers. The researchers believe that young chimps have a photographic memory that can allow them to memorise a complex scene very quickly. They even believe that human children may possess this ability, but that it declines with age. More interestingly however, when the highest performing chimp Ayumu went head-to-head with nine university students who had had six months training in the game, the students were defeated hands down. The difference was most notable when the numbers were flashed onto the screen for only two tenths of a second. Ayumu's success rate of ordering the numbers was 80% - the same as it had been when the numbers were on the screen for 0.7 seconds. However, the students' success fell from 80% to 40%."
