Go cold water for our species, as past of complacency and "incontinence ego! It turns out that a large battery of experimental tests carried out by researchers at Kyoto University , five chimpanzees were shown to have better memories than college students digital. And as explained by the study director, Tetsuro Matsuzawa, the experiment does not allow for the chance:
front of the frenetic activity of the Apes, responding compulsively and without committing a single error (what envy!), Struck by the bewilderment of the students, their air breading and its absolute inability to remember more than two consecutive numbers. The Matsuzawa Japan insists that underwent young chimpanzees and human adults the same evidence and "the same way." But here, among us, I have to say that the procedure was not quite the same. If you look at videos of the tests, we see subtly that each success of a chimpanzee is reinforced a peanut dispensing machine. But there is no evidence that the university did the same, for that to match the experimental conditions. Moreover, I am sure that instead of peanuts had to offer, in all probability, some shots of Chinese absinthe or a cheap cost, the only rational way to understand their behavior. Because the other explanation I have is that they have been selected for testing by the same company that Humor makes the casting of Amarillo. No, it would be too. Is more credible than Tetsuro Matsuzawa, at personal crusade against anthropocentrism, has decided to harakiri our species with the scientific method."Many people, including many biologists, who believe that humans are superior to chimpanzees in all cognitive functions. Nobody could imagine that chimpanzees have more than five years that human memory skills. Demonstrated for the first time they have an extraordinary ability to remember numbers, greater than that of adult humans who did the same test. "
Whatever the article published in the journal Current Biology ends dramatically with the universal idea that humans are superior in all cognitive functions, and remember that probably we underestimated the intellectual capacity of the ancestors closest to the human species.
can see that we lack a boil evolutionary
The experiment was to show the different actors, humans and apes despite the redundancy, multiple numbers 1 to 9 on a touch screen. Subsequently, the numbers were replaced by a blank and participants had to indicate what number appeared, where and in what order. Participated in the experiment three females and a baby chimpanzee from each of them. Showed young chimps have better memories than their mothers and humans: memorized most of the numbers, regardless of the time these appeared on the screen, which was shrinking, as the test progressed. For their part, college students were much slower than the six monkeys in their response and also gave worse the lower the period of time the number was presented on the screen.
A humbling
The Tetsuro Matsuzawa mented interpret these observations through what he calls "eidetic imagery," a special ability to remember things heard and seen in a complex scene with a near perfect level of detail . In philosophy, the word "eidetic" from the Greek 'eidés' refers to the intuitive knowledge of the essence. It is going to be!
But for the rest of us, including myself included, would suffice to assume Franciscan humility still have much to learn from our brothers in the animal kingdom, which are closer to us than we want to think. Interesting lesson for the bull, which cynically cheesy mask-art, culture, nobility, courage ...- torture a coso anachronistic ritual, or for designers and furriers, determined to start literally skin some animals to others look your palm. Serve
Matsuzawa work to remember the need to respect animals, unnecessary cruelty prosecution, although it masquerades as art, fashion or medical experimentation, "and to demand decent treatment, especially those for sacrifice. It's the least we can ask for those left more than skin for us.
If proximity is not let us, at least, if Tetsuro Matsuzawa, stubbornly Japan, manages to sneak in their chimps in the next PISA tests and makes them compete with our 15 year olds. Just the thought gives me chills.
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