Baboons leave scientists spell-bound
The six baboons used the computers up to 3000 times a day, notching up an average total of 50,000 "trials" over a month and a half.
They learned to distinguish scores of words, identifying them with an accuracy of 75 per cent, according to the study led by Jonathan Grainger at the Cognitive Research Laboratory at France's Aix-Marseille University .
There were 500 real words and 7832 nonsense ones in the data bank.
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