The finals are in for working memory tests between chimps and college students and overall the chimps won. Yikes!
Researcher Tetsuro Matsuzawa showed how 5 and 7 year old chimps scored better in memory tests than humans … on several tests and multiple 
occasions.
Check out the tests to see how numbers appeared for a brief period and participants were to touch white boxes over numbers in correct order. When numbers appeared for about seven-tenths of a second, the chimp and the college students tied for correct answers 80 per cent of the time.
Then the time was shortened and the chimps quickly became champs. Even when numbers flashed very briefly the chimps remembered where numbers were located.
I’m not sure from this research ... whether we should be praising chimps ... or helping students. Does this research build a case for developing more brainpower on college campuses. Al least more acumen than a chimp’s….
What do you think?
Chimps are our ancestors how can kids be more smarter than their parents. Humans can't be smarter than Chimps...keep it up...n a nice article...
Posted by: Ashi Kacheria | December 4, 2007 3:02 AM | Permalink to Comment