• DOI:10.1016/j.conb.2009.04.007
Corpus ID: 14799654

Symbolic representation of number in chimpanzees

@article{Matsuzawa2009SymbolicRO,
  title={Symbolic representation of number in chimpanzees},
  author={T. Matsuzawa},
  journal={Current Opinion in Neurobiology},
  year={2009},
  volume={19},
  pages={92-98}
}

T. Matsuzawa

Published 2009

Medicine

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

This paper aims to summarize the existing evidence for the symbolic representation of number in chimpanzees. Chimpanzees can represent, to some extent, both the cardinal and the ordinal aspect of number. Through the medium of Arabic numerals we compared working memory in humans and chimpanzees using the same apparatus and following the same procedure. Three young chimpanzees outperformed human adults in memorizing briefly presented numerals. However, we found that chimpanzees were less… CONTINUE READING

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