The Chimp Who Beats Humans Ayumu was born at Kyoto University in 2000. Researcher Tetsuro Matsuzawa trained him on numbers. Numbers flash on a touchscreen for milliseconds. Then white squares cover them. Ayumu taps them in order from memory. He gets nine digits right in 210 milliseconds. Human adults cannot come close. Working memory belongs to the chimp.
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