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
Can we not do that, seems like something you could train for over the course of a few months?
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Replying to @aDaveJohnson
David, we have been doing this research for 75 years. There has yet to be a human candidate that could come close to the average chimp in these tests.
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Replying to @BrianRoemmele @aDaveJohnson
this paper claims it is just overtraining: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/20702883/ … This isn’t my field. Is this a disputed result?
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Replying to @lukesjulson @aDaveJohnson
Luke, thanks for asking. The university that is doing this primate research in Japan has over 3000 studies with 1000s of subjects. It is clear that the Chimps can our perform humans with little training.
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Replying to @BrianRoemmele @aDaveJohnson
Cool, thanks! What I love about neuroscience is that I’ve been studying it for almost 25 years, and there are still such basic facts that I never knew about.
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Link to refuting the pubmed article that Luke posted? Not saying you are wrong, just good practice to cite over tweet.
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Dion, thank you. Good point. Lots of questions today. Here is a site to the University that presents decades of chimpanzee research in Japan. It is where the video was shot: https://langint.pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ai/index.html
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Replying to @BrianRoemmele @dalmaer and
thats not what was asked for. here is a picture of a dog. what was asked is for evidence. the evidence is not there. worse: the claim has been repeatedly refuted (its just overtrained chimps). see e.g.: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/45629789_Do_young_chimpanzees_have_extraordinary_memory …pic.twitter.com/O0p0chmqAp
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Claudio, interesting response sir. The work product of this university research is on the site. Why you want to degrade the work of other scientists doing pure research is not clear. All you point to is a single paper desktop “debunk” and not replicate. That’s not science sir.
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