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
appreciate the link but can you please provide a reference with regards to this specific claim? The refs in this link are very broad. thank you
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Replying to @hassenrueb @dalmaer and
Joshua, thanks for asking. The university has published many papers on this research. It can be found here: https://www.pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index.html
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Replying to @BrianRoemmele @dalmaer and
would you please be so kind as to provide me with a link for *one* reference that provides evidence for this specific claim. I have trouble finding anything relevant on this site. thanks again
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Replying to @hassenrueb @BrianRoemmele and
People keep asking for a specific paper in various branches of these threads, and he keeps not giving one. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say it has not been refuted as clearly as he claims.
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Replying to @tyrell_turing @BrianRoemmele and
Definitely willing to give the benefit of the doubt here but his responses seem...strategically vague
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Replying to @hassenrueb @tyrell_turing and
I haven’t read the papers, but I don’t think the task looks hard enough that trained humans couldn’t do it. Also, chimps would require lots of training just to learn the numbers, so unless that training was done separately, it would be hard to make direct chimp to human 1/
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Replying to @lukesjulson @hassenrueb and
comparisons. Finally, even if chimps demonstrably had clearly superior visual working memory performance, that wouldn’t provide any good reason to believe that it’s because of competition for cortical real estate by language function. Would be interesting to test deaf 2/
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Replying to @lukesjulson @hassenrueb and
people. But still, I think the mere fact that these studies exist and people are debating it is very interesting. 3/3
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Luke, thank you. Great insights. The research is now focusing on the short term memory regions in the chimpanzees brain in the area we have the phonological loop and observe a decline in function. Thus far this has proven to show promise.
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