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This study found that adolescent Aboriginal kids outperformed white Australian kids on visual–spatial memory tasks. Background (traditional vs non-traditional) didn’t change the Aboriginal kids’ strong performance:
What I find interesting, is that chimpanzees also have a better capacity to process visual information than we do.
Visual spatial memory was investigated in Australian Aboriginal children of desert origin. The investigation arose from an environmental pressures hypothesis relating particular skills to survival requirements in a particular habitat, and follows one of a series of suggestions made by R. B. Lockard (American Psychologist, 1971, 26, 168–179) for research in the related field of comparative psychology. Aboriginal children, from 6 to 17 years, performed at significantly higher levels than white Australian children on the tasks. Item type did not affect scores of Aboriginal children, while for white Australian children familiar items were easier than less familiar, which, if potentially nameable, were easier than items unable to be differentiated by name. These indications of strategy difference between the groups were supported by overt differences in task behavior.
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Visual spatial memory in Australian Aboriginal children of desert regions
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What I find interesting, is that chimpanzees also have a better capacity to process visual information than we do.
Scholars@Duke publication: Chimpanzees and bonobos exhibit divergent spatial memory development.
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