Consider: millions of years ago our antecedents gave a massive sacrifice of their left hemisphere. We lost a tremendous amount of short term memory and replaced it with Broca’s, Wernicke & the phonological loop. But why? So we can—talk. Thus chimpanzees can do this—we can’t:pic.twitter.com/CDznxg37p1
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Replying to @BrianRoemmele @kevinnbass
No. We absolutely can do this. Those chimps were trained every day for years and beat uneducated humans with no training. When the same experiment was done with educated humans who were trained for a small fraction of the time the chimps were, the humans outperforned the chimps.
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Got a link to said repeated experiment?
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Replying to @kearonis @AviBittMD and
1. It's not the same task. 2. Esport tournaments preselect top-performing people. It's like saying "humans run at 40km/h, just watch any Olympics". I'm asking specifically about comparison in this study regarding average representatives of species.
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I linked the repeat experiment. Also, the chimpanzee used wasn't representative of the average chimp either. They selected that chimpanzee because it was the best performing one and pitted that one specifically against the humans.
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Avi, this is not the case in most of the research. All chips faired better then humans under equal conditions. They did in some studies find the better performing chimps. But this is not the point of the research. It is to understand the development of the phonological loop.
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