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        December 5, 2007

(CNN Student News) -- December 5, 2007 Smart Chimps AZUZ: All right, we want to change things up and try a little test here. Pay close attention to the screen. Ready? Set? Go! Now did you get all five numbers? Could you put them in order? Japanese researchers have been running a similar test on a group of adults and a group of 5-year-olds to see who's faster. Oh, and the 5-year-olds? They were apes! Anjali Rao tells us who came out the winner. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANJALI RAO, CNN REPORTER: When Japanese researchers put chimpanzees and humans head to head in a memory contest, the chimps are champs. Researcher Tetsuro Matsuzawa of Kyoto University set up the videogame test. Three five-year-old chimps were pitted against several humans in two different short-term memory tests. The first test shows numbers one through nine on the screen. Each subject tries to touch the numbers in numeric order. The chimps are faster every time. The second test is harder; the numbers are hidden by white boxes as soon as they appear. Incredibly, the chimps are still faster. The humans were given a second chance, though, to redeem themselves. But even with more training, the human testers still couldn't improve their speed enough to beat the chimps. For the full details of primate domination, complete results are published in Tuesday's issue of the science journal "Current Biology." Anjali Rao, CNN, Hong Kong. (END VIDEO CLIP) Promo AZUZ: Ok, let's give you one more shot at those numbers. Here we go. Think you got them all this time? Let's check and see. Here they are: One - five - nine - 18 - and 26. So, how'd you do? Think you're ready to take on those chimps? Well, if you want to test out your mathematical memory and learn more about the study, head to CNNStudentNews.com. There's a link to the chimp challenge In the Spotlight on today's page.

  

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