In the video above Jonathan Grainger discusses an experiment in
which he and his colleagues attempted to teach Guinea baboons to
distinguish between real English words and strings of letters
which are not English words. The baboons learned to recognize
words from nonwords, exhibiting human-like orthographic
processing. The results indicate that the baboons were focusing
on the location of individual letters in the words in order to
identify them. Interestingly, this is similar to the approach
taken by human readers. - Reuters Video: Bright baboons show
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