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This is Ayumu, he's an 11-year-old chimpanzee who lives and trains at Kyoto University's Primate Research Institute. In his time there, Ayumu has come to excel at an incredibly difficult — albeit very straightforward — memorization game. If you challenge him to this game, you will lose.
This chimp will kick your ass at memory games — but how the hell does he do it?
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What makes this feat especially impressive is how little time Ayumu is allotted to commit the numbers' positions to memory before they are covered by the squares. This length of time can be varied by the researchers who study Ayumu; generally speaking, shorter time allotments translate to poorer task performance.
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