Chimpanzee Memory Test

Play and try to beat the chimp: http://games.lumosity.com/chimp.html (I'm not affiliated with that site)What really sets us apart from our cousins? Our wonderful memory?No, not that, either.This video illustrates that our ape cousins far exceed us in short term memory recall skills. A chimp is shown memorizing numbers with remarkable accuracy at lightning speed.An amazing bit of footage from the National Geographic documentary "Human Ape".More Information: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7124156.stm http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/human-ape-3173/OverviewCit..., S. and Matsuzaka, T., (2007). Working memory of numerals in chimpanzees. Current Biology 17 No. 23:R1004-5 (doi:10.1016/j.cub.2007.10.027) http://www.psy.ed.ac.uk/events/Inoue%20and%20Matsuzawa%202007%20CB%20PDF... The accuracy of the findings presented in this video, and this study itself, has been disputed.See the links below for more information:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Paper: Silberberg, A, & Kearns, D. (2009). Memory for the order of briefly presented numerals in humans as a function of practice . Animal Cognition, 12(2), 405-407. http://www.springerlink.com/content/h842v2702r60u481/Letter: Cook, P, & Wilson, M. (2010). In practice, chimp memory study flawed. Science, 328(5983), 1228. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/citation/328/5983/1228-c?ijkey=d81...