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Only tangentially related: apes (their tail-less cousins) surpass humans in many visual memory tasks, similar to the ones employed in the OP study:
Source, includes video.
It would be interesting to escalate that same experimental setup to such chimps, i.e. to ascertain whether that same method can be used to upgrade even super-human abilities.
That study is extremely interesting, but its central claim is disputed. Here it is claimed that when humans get to practice as much as Ayumu, they can reach his level:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/h842v2702r60u481/
There was a request for these full texts, so I'm providing them here: Silberberg & Kearns (2009) and Cook & Wilson (2010).
Cook & Wilson's abstract: