Friday, February 15, 2013

Voice of America: Chimpanzee Minds Much Like Humans, In Some Ways Better

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Chimpanzee Minds Much Like Humans, In Some Ways Better
Feb 15th 2013, 20:35

At Kyoto University's Primate Research Institute, a chimpanzee named Ayumu is performing a task that is impossible for a person to do, revealing how chimp cognition can mirror -- and in some cases surpass -- the capabilities of the human brain. Sitting in front of a computer monitor that briefly displays the numbers one through nine in a random pattern, the chimp touches the number one. The remaining digits are immediately hidden behind white squares. But Ayumu can touch where each number ...

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