Ayumu (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]

External resources

Ayumu's game. For those who want to measure their memorization skills against chimpanzees: https://fson4.github.io

References
  1. "Ayumu the Chimpanzee Living in the Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University - Chimpanzee Ai". Langint.pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  2. Matsuzawa, T. (2003). "The Ai project: Historical and ecological contexts". Animal Cognition. 6 (4): 199–211. doi:10.1007/s10071-003-0199-2. PMID 14566577.
  3. "Numerals - Arrows".
  4. "Chimp solves memory test 'faster than blink of an eye'". BBC. 2012.
  5. "5-year-old chimp beats college kids in computer game - CNN.com". 9 June 2008. Archived from the original on 9 June 2008. Retrieved 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. 12 (2): 405–407. doi:10.1007/s10071-008-0206-8. ISSN 1435-9448.
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