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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Full text here: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/PBR.17.4.599.pdf …
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Awesome, thanks!
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Folks this is not the conclusions three university has arrived at after 30 years of primate research. A single paper with an aim to “debunk” should not throw out this important research. More is here: https://www.pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index.html
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You linked to that before, but have you got something specific there to confirm the original claim in your tweet? I could not find anything that disagrees with "humans can do it too, with enough practice". (Or anything specifically citing the debunking paper either)
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Kim Peek can do this and it is likely other with a similar situation could. When the screen moves to 40 number combinations it is not easy to train humans. You can contact the researcher and ask specific questions here:https://www.matsuzawa.kyoto/cv/en/
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