Department of Cognitive Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
Psychon Bull Rev. 2010 Aug;17(4):599-600. doi: 10.3758/PBR.17.4.599.
Do chimpanzees have better spatial working memory than humans? In a previous report, a juvenile chimpanzee outperformed 3 university students on memory for briefly displayed digits in a spatial array (Inoue & Matsuzawa, 2007). The authors described these abilities as extraordinary and likened the chimpanzee's performance to eidetic memory. However, the chimpanzee received extensive practice on a non-time-pressured version of the task; the human subjects received none. Here we report that, after adequate practice, 2 university students substantially outperformed the chimpanzee. There is no evidence for a superior or qualitatively different spatial memory system in chimpanzees.
黑猩猩的工作空间记忆比人类好吗？在之前的一份报告中，一只幼年黑猩猩在记忆短暂显示的数字空间排列方面的表现优于 3 名大学生（Inoue 和 Matsuzawa，2007）。作者将这些能力描述为非凡的，并将黑猩猩的表现比作遗觉象。然而，这只黑猩猩在一个没有时间压力的任务版本上接受了广泛的练习；人类受试者则没有。在这里，我们报告说，经过充分的练习，两名大学生的表现大大优于黑猩猩。没有证据表明黑猩猩具有优越或质的不同的空间记忆系统。
