title: 'This chimp will kick your ass at memory games - but how the hell does he do it?'.
abstract: Extraordinary evidence generates extraordinary claims. I discuss the remarkable memory skills of chimpanzees tested in the Kyoto Primate Laboratory, and suggest a novel – but deflationary – hypothesis to explain them. Could the chimpanzees, who have been highly trained to learn the sequence of Arabic numerals, have developed number–colour synaesthesia?
authors.affiliation: Darwin College, Cambridge, CB3 9EU, United Kingdom. humphrey@me.com
authors.forename: Nicholas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Humphrey
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D007858:Learning; D008568:Memory; D002679:Pan troglodytes / Q000523:psychology*; D010465:Perception