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Humans 1, Chimps 0: Correcting the Record
Behavioural and data science. Economics. Evolutionary biology.
This performance, documented by Inoue and Matsuzawa ( 2007) in Current Biology, was used to assert that chimps have superior working memory to humans. In spite of this basic methodological error, the claim of superior spatial working memory in chimpanzees has been widely and uncritically repeated in the popular and scientific media. Propagation of this incorrect idea distracts from more fruitful explorations of chimpanzee memory and undermines ongoing research into human and primate evolution.
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