Your Dog and His Animal Counterparts Demonstrate Terrible Short-Term Memory Spans
- 9 years ago
Research conducted by a Stockholm University-led team has found that non-human animals, including dogs, have very short short-term memory spans, with an average of about 27 seconds.
Your dog may be able to do tricks, but he probably doesn’t remember the last time he did them.
That’s because dogs, like other non-human animals, seem to have very short short-term memory spans that last from a few seconds up to several minutes.
The average across all animals may only be about 27 seconds.
Based on these findings, animal specialist Johan Lind at Stockholm University who led the study, has concluded that “animals have no long-term memory of arbitrary events.”
His team studied nearly 100 data set results from a memory test of recent events given to animals across 25 species including birds, mammals, and bees.
They found that dogs can remember something for at most two minutes while chimpanzees seem to retain information for about 20 secon
Your dog may be able to do tricks, but he probably doesn’t remember the last time he did them.
That’s because dogs, like other non-human animals, seem to have very short short-term memory spans that last from a few seconds up to several minutes.
The average across all animals may only be about 27 seconds.
Based on these findings, animal specialist Johan Lind at Stockholm University who led the study, has concluded that “animals have no long-term memory of arbitrary events.”
His team studied nearly 100 data set results from a memory test of recent events given to animals across 25 species including birds, mammals, and bees.
They found that dogs can remember something for at most two minutes while chimpanzees seem to retain information for about 20 secon