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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Every animal has a limited amount of brain power and size, so every skill and talent has an opportunity cost. This is not controversial or particularly questioned. The Cognitive Tradeoff hypothesis is about tradeoffs apparent between chimpanzees and human.pic.twitter.com/FzChpI1oDM
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In 1956 "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information” by George A. Miller of Harvard University was published. It was a landmark of human memory research. Bell Labs adopted memory chunking in phone numbers (xxx)-xxx-xxxxpic.twitter.com/SDsB22DRNu
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Consider Kim Peek. He had a skill that would surpass the abilities of the chimpanzees. He had suffered damage through encephalitis to the corpus colosseum. I wrote about him here on Quora: https://www.quora.com/Is-the-ability-to-observe-many-things-at-once-a-documented-human-phenomenon/answer/Brian-Roemmele?ch=10&share=0c808fa3&srid=Pi3 … You may know him: His name was Rain Man in a popular movie.pic.twitter.com/77rhdkiN5P
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This chimpanzee research was performed for over 30 years by Tetsuro Matsuzawa, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study, Professor, Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University, Coordinator. There is much to his work.https://www.matsuzawa.kyoto/cv/en/
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