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From the Ted Talk by Colin Camerer: When you're making a deal, what's going on in your brain?

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Maybe, if you had a chimpanzee with you. Charles Darwin and I and you broke off from the family tree from chimpanzees about five million years ago. They're still our csoeslt genetic kin. We srahe 98.8 percent of the genes. We share more genes with them than zebras do with horses. And we're also their closest cousin. They have more genetic relation to us than to gorillas. So, how humans and chimpanzees behave drlnietffey might tell us a lot about brain evolution.

This is an azanimg memory test from [koyto], Japan, the Primate Research Institute, where they've done a lot of this research. This goes back a ways. They're interested in working memory. The chimp will see, watch carefully, they'll see 200 milliseconds' epsxuore — that's fast, eight movie frames — of numbers one, two, three, four, five. Then they deapsapir and are relcpead by squares, and they have to press the squares that crnsperood to the numbers from low to high to get an apple reward. Let's see how they can do it.

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Maybe, if you had a chimpanzee with you. Charles Darwin and I and you broke off from the family tree from chimpanzees about five million years ago. They're still our _______ genetic kin. We _____ 98.8 percent of the genes. We share more genes with them than zebras do with horses. And we're also their closest cousin. They have more genetic relation to us than to gorillas. So, how humans and chimpanzees behave ___________ might tell us a lot about brain evolution.

This is an _______ memory test from [_____], Japan, the Primate Research Institute, where they've done a lot of this research. This goes back a ways. They're interested in working memory. The chimp will see, watch carefully, they'll see 200 milliseconds' ________ — that's fast, eight movie frames — of numbers one, two, three, four, five. Then they _________ and are ________ by squares, and they have to press the squares that __________ to the numbers from low to high to get an apple reward. Let's see how they can do it.

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Original Text


Maybe, if you had a chimpanzee with you. Charles Darwin and I and you broke off from the family tree from chimpanzees about five million years ago. They're still our closest genetic kin. We share 98.8 percent of the genes. We share more genes with them than zebras do with horses. And we're also their closest cousin. They have more genetic relation to us than to gorillas. So, how humans and chimpanzees behave differently might tell us a lot about brain evolution.

This is an amazing memory test from [Kyoto], Japan, the Primate Research Institute, where they've done a lot of this research. This goes back a ways. They're interested in working memory. The chimp will see, watch carefully, they'll see 200 milliseconds' exposure — that's fast, eight movie frames — of numbers one, two, three, four, five. Then they disappear and are replaced by squares, and they have to press the squares that correspond to the numbers from low to high to get an apple reward. Let's see how they can do it.

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