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Comment author: DanielVarga 16 September 2012 12:06:28PM 4 points [-]

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/

Comment author: VincentYu 18 September 2012 10:33:43PM *  4 points [-]

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:

Do chimpanzees have better spatial working memory than humans? In a previous report, a juvenile chimpanzee outperformed 3 university students on memory for briefly displayed digits in a spatial array (Inoue & Matsuzawa, 2007). The authors described these abilities as extraordinary and likened the chimpanzee's performance to eidetic memory. However, the chimpanzee received extensive practice on a non-time-pressured version of the task; the human subjects received none. Here we report that, after adequate practice, 2 university students substantially outperformed the chimpanzee. There is no evidence for a superior or qualitatively different spatial memory system in chimpanzees.

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