People always knew chimpanzees superb short-term memory. Recently, scientists at the California Institute of Technology study found that, in terms of strategic thinking, an experiment in chimpanzees than in humans also worse.
Is a test similar to the "black and white" game, two players (two chimpanzees or two human subjects) each have a front screen will be displayed on the screen two of the same symbols to choose from. Without knowing what the other selected cases, a participant to the other side and try to choose the same symbol, another participant to the other as much as possible and not the same. Complete goal rewarded (chimps are food for humans is money). Simply put, this game is to ask you smarter than the other.
Although this experiment may sound too simple, but in fact it's real life and strategic thinking needed are closely related. Imagine this scenario, you do not want to work in the office, and do not hesitate to run the risk of being the boss found, secretly open the game play a DOTA. At this point you thought patterns on this simple game of chance and is very similar. Caltech Computational Neuroscience Department (department of computational and neural systems) of Rahul Bhui that their experiment is the most core of the strategic thinking process to extract out.
Kyoto University Primate Research Center (Kyoto University Primate Research Insititue) and Guinea-wave Minds (Bossou, Guinea) both have done the experiment. Experiment 6 and 28 chimpanzees were tested each individual category and the same game. The results showed that, on average, chimpanzees performed better than humans! In fact, the chimpanzee's performance is so good, that it reached the theoretical limit - Nash equilibrium. (Nash equilibrium is a Nobel laureate John F. Nash, Jr. presented, read "A Beautiful Mind," the people must understand him)
This result was quite scary, right?
As human beings are superior in intelligence will be how chimpanzees suppress it? This, of course there are many reasons. One reason is that as people know, the chimpanzee short-term memory is stronger than humans. Another point is more important it is that the "competitive" is critical to the game in this experiment. And compared to chimpanzees, the people manifested and competitive among similar devices are not so strong.
Chimpanzee, the competition in life is commonplace. They grew up (such as hide and seek, fighting) in each case continuously hone their competitive. The relative, humans are at a young age to realize that cooperation is more important than the competition, and the use of "language" is a good tool to do this.
In other words, humans may trump card is the "language." If you see what chimpanzees are reading, do not hesitate, do put the book away. (Via huffingtonpost)
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