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Adult great apes show enhanced memory for social events

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Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have examined how social models influence memory in great apes. They presented young and adult apes with videos of either a human hand (a social model) or a mechanical claw (a non-social model) building a tower. The results showed that while adult apes remembered towers built by a human hand better than those built by a claw, younger apes did not.

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Adult great apes show enhanced memory for social events

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have examined how social models influence memory in great apes. They presented young and adult apes with videos of either a human hand (a social model) or a mechanical claw (a non-social model) building a tower. The results showed that while adult apes remembered towers built by a human hand better than those built by a claw, younger apes did not.

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Social memory in great apes

19.02.2025 - Great apes, like humans, remember objects better when introduced by a social agent, but develop this skill only in adulthood. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, examined how social models influence memory in great apes.

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