Ayumu (chimpanzee) explained

Ayumu
Species:chimpanzee
Gender:male
Birth Date:24 April 2000
Parents:Ai (chimpanzee)

Ayumu (born 24 April 2000)[1] is a chimpanzee currently living at the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University. He is the son of chimpanzee Ai and has been a participant since infancy in the Ai Project, an ongoing research effort aimed at understanding chimpanzee cognition.[2] As part of the Ai Project, Ayumu participated in a series of short-term memory tasks, such as to remember the sequential order of numbers[3] displaying on a touch-sensitive computer screen.[4] His performance in the tasks was superior to that of comparably trained university students, leading to a possible conclusion that young chimpanzees have better working memory than adult humans,[5] although this has been disputed.[6]

See also

External links

Ayumu's game. For those who want to measure their memorization skills against chimpanzees: https://mtriad.github.io/1/

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ayumu the Chimpanzee Living in the Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University - Chimpanzee Ai. Langint.pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp. 21 February 2019. 23 January 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200123184545/http://langint.pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ai/en/friends/ayumu.html. dead.
  2. Matsuzawa . T. . The Ai project: Historical and ecological contexts . 10.1007/s10071-003-0199-2 . Animal Cognition . 6 . 4 . 199–211 . 2003 . 14566577. 8928490 .
  3. Web site: Numerals - Arrows.
  4. Web site: Chimp solves memory test 'faster than blink of an eye' . 2012 . BBC.
  5. Web site: 5-year-old chimp beats college kids in computer game - CNN.com. https://web.archive.org/web/20080609101803/http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/12/03/chimp.memory.ap/index.html. dead. 9 June 2008. 9 June 2008. 21 February 2019.
  6. Silberberg. Alan. Kearns. David. March 2009. Memory for the order of briefly presented numerals in humans as a function of practice. Animal Cognition. en. 12. 2. 405–407. 10.1007/s10071-008-0206-8. 19115068. 7412863. 1435-9448.

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