jts Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 3 minuteshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJAH4ZJBiN8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dglgmut Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 I want to see this monkey play chess vs Magnus Carlsen. He's supposed to have a super human memory as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
william.scherk Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 (edited) 3 minutesYes. You get a small piece of apple (treated with BT) for your ability to hit some buttons. If you watch , Jerry, you can see it took the star pupil quite some time to get to the level of proficiency displayed above (that's right, over a year of practice).For those who think less like a chimp (mmmmm, BT apple) and more like a human (I can read and you can't), here is the paper that claims something extraordinary about Chimp memory:Inoue, S. and Matsuzaka, T., (2007). Working memory of numerals in chimpanzees. Current Biology 17 No. 23 [Full text]From the Youtube description of the Nat Geo video poked out by our resident Chimp:NOTE: The accuracy of the findings presented in this video, and this study itself, has been disputed.See the links below for more information:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Paper: Silberberg, A, & Kearns, D. (2009). Memory for the order of briefly presented numerals in humans as a function of practice . Animal Cognition, 12(2), 405-407.► http://www.springerl...42v2702r60u481/Letter: Cook, P, & Wilson, M. (2010). In practice, chimp memory study flawed. Science, 328(5983), 1228.► http://www.sciencema...key=d814b702...-- From a second Cook and Wilson paper abstract (Do young chimpanzees have extraordinary working memory?):Do chimpanzees have better spatial working memory than humans? In a previous report, a juvenile chimpanzee outperformed 3 university students on memory for briefly displayed digits in a spatial array (Inoue & Matsuzawa, 2007). The authors described these abilities as extraordinary and likened the chimpanzee's performance to eidetic memory. However, the chimpanzee received extensive practice on a non-time-pressured version of the task; the human subjects received none. Here we report that, after adequate practice, 2 university students substantially outperformed the chimpanzee. There is no evidence for a superior or qualitatively different spatial memory system in chimpanzees.One more visual treat for you, Jerry -- Chimpanzee Porn! Not quite as sexy as your cousins poking at a screen, but hey. Edited October 21, 2012 by william.scherk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaalChatzaf Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 I want to see this monkey play chess vs Magnus Carlsen. He's supposed to have a super human memory as well.An ape, not a monkey.Ba'al Chatzaf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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