Chimps have MUCH better memories than humans!

[[Matt]]

http://richarddawkins.net/article,1949,Chimps-beat-humans-in-memory-test,BBC

Young chimps outperformed university students in memory tests devised by Japanese scientists.

The tasks involved remembering the location of numbers on a screen, and correctly recalling the sequence.

The findings, published in Current Biology, suggest we may have under-estimated the intelligence of our closest living relatives.

Until now, it had always been assumed that chimps could not match humans in memory and other mental skills.

:E

 

[Warbie]

Doesn't surprise me, a goldfish has a better memory than me.

Go chimps

 

[Druckles]

Omg! :O

That's so freaky!

 

[Jimmeh]

And so the uprising begins...

:monkee:

 

[Eejit]

Get your stinking hands off my university spot you damn dirty ape!


But really,

Chimps performed much better than university students in speed and accuracy when the numbers appeared only briefly on screen.

The shortest time duration, 210 milliseconds, did not leave enough time for the subjects to explore the screen by eye movement - something we do all the time when we read.

This is evidence, the researchers believe, that young chimps have a photographic memory which allows them to memorise a complex scene or pattern at a glance. This is sometimes present in human children but declines with age, they say.

That... proves... nothing...
So what if a 5 year old chimp has better photographic memory than an adult human if we already know human children have better photographic memories than adults? Um, wow. Let's conduct a study into average weight of Florida oranges vs British apples!

 

[nurizeko]

I would just like to take this opportunity to point out all of human civilization.

Thankyou.

 

[soulslicer]

had to be posted

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VntFEWF8I8A

see the whole song/vid, monkeys are becoming smarter at 56 Seconds

 

[Crushenator 500]

had to be posted
vid

see the whole song/vid, monkeys are becoming smarter at 56 Seconds

I might have thought slightly more of that if it wasn't a korn video...

I don't think they have much standing when it comes to intelligence

 

[Druckles]

Solution. Introduce a plague which destroys anyone with an IQ below 100. Voila.

 

[mortiz-Redux]

I posted this shit yesterday

 

[Druckles]

I posted this shit yesterday

Apprently people with a postcount less than 500 we can't trust. So we need a link.

Edit: Discrimination never felt so good

 

[mortiz-Redux]

Respect my authoratah

Although I can't access that account anymore, damn you ISP.

 

[Pesmerga]

So what? Computers have exponentially better memory capacities. We don't need to remember number sequences or facts- we can just know it once and put it into a computer.

Problem solving and creative thinking is where humans excel. Monkeys have neither the capacity nor intelligence to build rocket ships. We do.

 

[Crushenator 500]

You wont be saying that when chimpanzees go into outer space!

Oh wait, they already have!!! :E

 

[Pesmerga]

We put them there :|

 

[Crushenator 500]

No shit, it may have been a stupid joke but I'm not retarded...

 

[Pesmerga]

How many children on average does Crushenator have.

For use in social demographic research.

 

[Crushenator 500]

What the hell are you talking about?

 

[Druckles]

Lmao! He's referring to the "stupid people have more kids" thing I believe

Crush, you live in Manchester? :O

 

[Krynn72]

Respect my authoratah

Although I can't access that account anymore, damn you ISP.

What does your ISP have to do with your ability to log into a forum account?

 

[Druckles]

What does your ISP have to do with your ability to log into a forum account?

I was thinking that last night... during my sleep, actually. Quite weird. I also dreamt I read a post that didn't exist.

 

[Naudian]

I was thinking that last night... during my sleep, actually. Quite weird. I also dreamt I read a post that didn't exist.

I do that all the time and the posts that I'm reading in my dreams never make ANY sense whatsoever. Take this spam mail for instance:

The big throne and the others stood respectfully tranquil one, for the little woman fussed, was as effective as a well-placed statue. name of that righteous cause in which we when the family were alone. she soon found that remark fancied this better than any other present,to offer, not being as good a scholar as bab. for it has occurred to me that it is a good brother fritz, i hear that you do not mean to her promise to aunt jessie, and was sorry and after looking at me carefully he perched to give. but he forgets that love is everything.

They're like that, except with more of a topic-discussing theme to it, rather than story-telling.

Anyway, about the monkeys.......hooray.

 

[Druckles]

I do that all the time and the posts that I'm reading in my dreams never make ANY sense whatsoever. Take this spam mail for instance:

I could actually remember what thread it was this morning... forgotten now. Weird