Ape trounces the best of the human world in memory competition

[DaShi]

How do we know that Amyumu wasn't a savant chimp himself?

[Darius871]

Originally posted by VetLegion
Interesting, but It's not that surprising if you think about it. Every animal is better than humans in something.

So true...

[Imran Siddiqui]

Man, the defensiveness in this thread is hilarious .

[Dauphin]

So Bush is in fact a genius?

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Wezil
*sigh*

I was all over this story months ago.

Humans have memories like sieves and would have forgotten stories like...er whatever this was about.

[Provost Harrison]

Interesting. I remember there was some Russian bloke a good few years ago with fantastic eidetic memory. He used to memorise tables of numbers, and the psychologist even tested him on one of these tables over 20 years later and he recalled the lot.

However saying this, because of the way that this mans brain was organised, he was completely useless at other things. If another person changed his facial expression, he could no longer recognise him. His mind worked extremely linearly and he just didn't have the lateral thinking skills and adaptability other human brains have. I think he was a dustman by profession because grasping rough concepts was nigh on impossible.

So yes, these apes may have this immense talent for memorisation, but this may be a factor of their brains being differently organised to our own, and the advantages this organisation grants us way surpasses simple memorisation.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Darius871


So true...

Dogs

[OzzyKP]

I can't believe they made that many Air Bud movies.

[Riesstiu IV]

for Air Bud images.

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by OzzyKP
I can't believe they made that many Air Bud movies.

My grandmother was a big fan.

JM

[Alinestra Covelia]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Interesting. I remember there was some Russian bloke a good few years ago with fantastic eidetic memory. He used to memorise tables of numbers, and the psychologist even tested him on one of these tables over 20 years later and he recalled the lot.

However saying this, because of the way that this mans brain was organised, he was completely useless at other things. If another person changed his facial expression, he could no longer recognise him. His mind worked extremely linearly and he just didn't have the lateral thinking skills and adaptability other human brains have. I think he was a dustman by profession because grasping rough concepts was nigh on impossible.

The doctor was Dr. Aleksandr Luria and the patient was Solomon Shereshevksii, a Russian of Jewish descent with synaesthesia (a condition where purely abstract concepts created quite perceptible sense-based constructs for the observer). Shereshevskii was referred to only as "patient S." and he could literally line up his memories as a row of images so he would never forget anything.

Sometimes if somebody coughed while saying something, his memories would visually obscure that particular word, and he would have to actually manipulate the position of the visuals in his memory in order to "see" the word clearly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.V._Shereshevskii

[vovan]

Originally posted by DaShi
How do we know that Amyumu wasn't a savant chimp himself?

I was wondering along similar lines, as well. First, it would be interesting to know how this one compares to other chimps -- is it normal for them to have a memory like that?

Also, clearly, the chimp must have been trained to do this. It would be interesting if they took a human baby and trained it to do the same thing every day for a few years. Then compare it to a chimp.

[Darius871]

Originally posted by Jon Miller

Originally posted by OzzyKP
I can't believe they made that many Air Bud movies.

My grandmother was a big fan.

JM

Have you put her in a home yet? Clearly she's a danger to herself and others.

[Wiglaf]

Monkeys > Apes

[LordShiva]