Thursday 19 March 2009

Chimps and grad students

Quick youtube clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVlJv7ZkvGA
Chimps were trained to remember a grid of numbers on a touch screen presented for a brief period. Afterwards they had to touch squares on the grid covering up the numbers, in ascending order. Grad students trained for the same period of time performed much worse in this task! Good thing we don't live in the trees.

Chimps for postdocs!!

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