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kitler53 on 03 December 2007

Associated Press - December 3, 2007 2:43 PM ET

NEW YORK (AP) - Think you're smarter than a fifth-grader? How about a 5-year-old chimp?

Japanese researchers pitted young chimps against human adults in tests of short-term memory. And overall, the chimps won.

One memory test included three chimps who'd been taught the order of numbers 1 through 9 against a dozen student volunteers.

They saw nine numbers displayed on a computer screen. When they touched the first number, the other eight turned into white squares. The test was to touch all these squares in the order of the numbers that used to be there.

1 of the researchers believes human ancestors gave up some of the tested abilities to make room for language development. And the 5-year old chimps had the advantage of youth. The memory for images that's needed for the tests resembles a skill found in children, but which grow rusty with age.

The results appear in the journal Current Biology.


source: http://www.kcautv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7443633&nav=1kgl


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lol, xD



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tombi123 on 03 December 2007

haha thats so good



vizunary on 03 December 2007

not as surprising as it should be... hehe.



Parokki on 03 December 2007

That game sounds like it requires an attention span of at least 10 seconds, so of course the primate wins. In a game like Halo, the college dude would have a clear advantage over his more advanced cousin. =P



Mummelmann on 03 December 2007

Sounds like great fun, they should have pitted some politicians against the chimps too!



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king_of_the_castle on 03 December 2007

College students with bad short term memory...I think the chimps would probably beat them in a urine test too.



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SlorgNet on 03 December 2007

Why stop at the President - let's replace the whole Congress with chimps. They'll get us out of Iraq, switch to renewable energy and provide health insurance for all in the time it takes to peel a banana.



Blackhawk FSI on 03 December 2007

wow, those guys are n00bs



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SeriousWB on 03 December 2007

When the chimps beat them at Brain Training, I'll start worrying about an invasion. By then I should have a shotgun, rocking chair, and no mental stability.

But still, I'd hate to be one of those students.



kirby007 on 03 December 2007

that is now the result of alot of beerdrinking



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