That’s really interesting. You can actually try a task which was used yourself.
Part of it seems to be that chimps are able to perform the task super fast—I can do the 9 number task on easy, on medium I can do it ok-ish and think if I kept practicing I’d be fairly consistent, but I don’t even have time to take all the numbers in on chimp speed.
I’m also not sure what to make of it. One possibility would be that chimps have an incredible short term memory (something like photographic) but that humans doing the same task have to rely on working memory. That would explain the speed at which they can take in all of the information.
That’s really interesting. You can actually try a task which was used yourself.
Part of it seems to be that chimps are able to perform the task super fast—I can do the 9 number task on easy, on medium I can do it ok-ish and think if I kept practicing I’d be fairly consistent, but I don’t even have time to take all the numbers in on chimp speed.
I’m also not sure what to make of it. One possibility would be that chimps have an incredible short term memory (something like photographic) but that humans doing the same task have to rely on working memory. That would explain the speed at which they can take in all of the information.