Chimps Have Better Memories Than College Students

I have to admit, some of my college years are a bit of a blur.

clipped from www.ananova.com Young chimpanzees beat a group of university students in a maths memory test. They remembered a series of numbers better than the undergraduates, reports the Daily Mirror. Japanese researchers pitted three pairs of five-year-old chimps and their mothers against a dozen students. Each group was shown numbers from one to nine on a touch screen. When they touched the first number, the other eight turned into white squares. The test was to touch the remaining squares in the order of the numbers that used to be there. All the young chimps scored higher than the undergraduates. Researcher Tetsoro Matsuzawa, of Kyoto University, said: "Young chimps have an extraordinary memory - often better than humans."

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