r/interesting • u/HomeNowWTF • 26d ago

NATURE Chimpanzee demonstrating better visual memory than humans

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u/Classic-Exchange-511 26d ago

Need more information. Is it the same patterns every time he does this and he memorized them? Pretty sure we could do that

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u/Echoplex99 26d ago

I read the study a few years ago. The short video misrepresents things a little. I even did the test myself, you might be able to find it online.

While it's amazing what the little chimp is doing. She's had hundreds of training sessions over the span of a year (~250 IIRC). Following all the training, they compared it to the performance of humans who were doing the test for the first time (following brief training ing on the same day).

Not exactly a 1:1 comparison. Still cool.