It's rather interesting to see that chimps have an advantage in memory over us. There's been a memory test performed with young chimps (age 5) and a dozen human volunteers. Most of us believe that we, as humans, have a more complex brain, therefore that allows us to have a greater advantage over mental activities over our cousins the chimpanzees. Yeah we do have an advantage with long term memory, however, with this test it's been proven that "...when the numbers were displayed for just four-tenths or two-tenths of a second, the chimp was the champ. The briefer of those times is too short to allow a look around the screen, and in those tests Ayumu (monkey) still scored about 80 percent, while humans plunged to 40 percent." -(Ritter, AP Science Writer)
So the Chimps have an advantage with short term memory.
Here's the article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071203/ap_on_fe_st/chimp_memory;_ylt=AqVUxxW6zhin2LBd1LnVK4jtiBIF
Here's a video of a if not the project:
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