'This chimp will kick your ass at memory games - but how the hell does he do it?'.
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Extraordinary evidence generates extraordinary claims. I discuss the remarkable memory skills of chimpanzees tested in the Kyoto Primate Laboratory, and suggest a novel – but deflationary – hypothesis to explain them. Could the chimpanzees, who have been highly trained to learn the sequence of Arabic numerals, have developed number–colour synaesthesia?
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Trends in cognitive sciences
دوره 16 7 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012