Chimps outperform humans at memory task

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/d...

For the first time, young chimps have outperformed humans at a memory test.

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[MrEnterthehole]

Mc Donalds should employ chimps, then they wont GET MY FOOKING ORDER WRONG EVERY TIME ;)

[SaturnAndItsRings]

PLANET OF THE APES

[BenLinke1]

not



[nephildevil]

i think my brain is almost trained enough i can beat a chimp at this mind game srsly :D

don't underestimate goddamn chimps

[deathnotex101]

humans learn longer, and yet they still lose, it doesn't mean they are smarter, it just means they can memorize more and faster than humans

[Cruzito420]

This is unfari. Those chimps have been training at this game for YEARS. Their human oppenents are just regular people who were asked if they wanted to participate in a study.

[mymalovenaka]

@stevo72882 FUCK U

[stevo728822]

They should try this same test with young children instead of adults.

[stevo728822]

This is once again because chimps have fewer subconscious modes than humans. When presented with this task, the human sifts through the appropriate mode to use, including the mode that questions whether it's worth bothering to complete the task. In contrast the chimp immediately leaps to a pattern matching mode. The chimp does not consider alternative modes. The natural human mode would be to negotiate with the machine or the person operating the machine.

[sugaqube17]

and then we get Planet of The Apes

[PRHILL9696]

Chimps are smarter than humans, why am I not surprised at all by that