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I just saw a report on the ABC national news
about tests done on chimps where they were
given series of numbers and rewarded if they
could remember where they appeared on the
computer screen. They not only could do this,
but were far better at it than the humans that
were also tested. It was said that this may be
so because they cared more about their
peanut reward than the human test takers did.
But is this actually simply a demonstration
of how they can remain one pointed better than
we can. I'm wondering how experienced meditators
would do?
Here's the story:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=3944729




Tue Dec 4, 2007 12:11 am

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I just saw a report on the ABC national news about tests done on chimps where they were given series of numbers and rewarded if they could remember where they...
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It seems for evolutionary purposes chimps developed greater short term memory abilities, probably for survival linked to memorizing patterns quickly or changes...
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