Love how Ayumu couldnt play the game becuase he was trying to get laid

"No explanation. Because no explanation to Ai... no explanation to Michael"

I love how they don't force the chimps to participate in research. Respectful and compassionate.

"No explanation to AI, no explanation to Michael" Loved it hahahah

"Look at monkeys!" - Dr. Matsuzawa, Distinguished Professor of Primatology

I never thought I’d ever see a monke rage quit before

I absolutely loved Matsuzawa, he’s so passionate and you can tell how much he cares for those monkeys with just a glance

I noticed that in humans we seem to be able to at least see the first few numbers correctly every time. So in the wild and having spoken language it may have been all we really needed to survive. Because once a threat was identified it could be "shared" and avoided by other members of the community, thus maximizing survival.

I love that they're doing animal experiments but with consent

"good boy"

This actually makes a lot of sense, there's been research that shows people who don't develop language skills because of abuse also don't develop abstract thought and abilities. I wonder how much of this comes from being verbal.

I have been watching two or three of your videos every night for the past couple of weeks, replacing my scanning TikTok for hours. Thank-you for your contribution to my life. The way you explain your theories, and your theories themselves are beyond amazing and so easy to understand. I love how one thought or question leads straight to another, you have a fantastic way of educating the world on such interesting topics and opening up one’s mind to alternate theories. Thank-you Michael, thank-you VSauce.

The professor seemed visibly frustrated when Michael beat Ai, and then took noticeable pleasure when Michael failed at the harder task. As payback, Michael slapped subtitles on professor's talk.

Tried a similar test - failed miserably. Tried again, but THIS time, rewarded myself with a piece of apple. Result? Perfect score ...but I forgot how to talk.

around 10:00 they talk about how imagination is what separates us. I remember hearing that telling stories is what makes us human. it's cool that these match up like that

Now that I can finally comment on these videos (After watching the first 2 seasons) I can finally say how much I enjoy watching these. I have learned so much. It almost reminds me of Brain Games but with more psychological research involved which is just super fascinating.

when that guy said “look at monkey”, it was one of the most wholesome things i’ve ever heard

In episode 2 Michael decides to live the remainder of his life as one with the chimpanzees

In my opinion, instead of memory and language being two different areas of the brain, and one had to shrink in order for the other to grow, I think it’s all memory, just allocated differently. Think about it; it takes a lot of memory to remember a language; sentence structure, all the different words and meanings, etc. It’s honestly incredible that I can still remember words I haven’t had to use in months or years (I honestly can’t tell you how long it’s been since I’ve used the word Troodon, but I still know it and what it means, that smart dinosaur that looked kinda like a big raptor). All this memory bust take up a ton of space, so that’s why we can’t remember things like Chimps can; we still have that powerful memory part of our brain, it’s just allocated to a different task. If ethics weren’t an issue, I think it’d be interesting to take a human baby, not teach it language but try to develop it’s memory skills with tests like the chimps get, and see what happens. Or vise-versa, since chimps don’t have the right vocal cords for speech, try to teach a chimp human-level sign language from birth, and if it learns that then see how it fares on the memory tests

Thank you for making these available for free, they've been a joy to watch. I'll pay when I get my next paycheck. I've missed your content and I thought you had stopped making stuff like the old days, but the Mindfield series has proven me wrong.

there's some interesting parallels here to the high functioning autistic savant piano player that can memorize 10 notes in a chord instantly, but he has difficulty communicating

"It takes a long time to memorize 9 numerals' positions!" "...and fail." *SAVAGE*

I love this. I'm grateful for his passion and research. Thank you!

I’ve thought about this so much over the years. Thank you for making this video.

I’m glad you made this free for us. Thank you Micheal, very cool.

Michael: I got the first three professor: good boi

Fantastic program! Turns on many lightbulbs in my head. Many thanks for presenting this data. And hats off to Kyoto University for supporting this essential research.

Love the way of the researcher he seems cold when in normal conversations but the fire that burns when he does what he's best at was really nice to see

I think the most impressive part of this is that they taught chimps to read 1-9 in numerical order

So basically don’t ever type any of your passwords around these mfs lmfao...

One of your best uploads. This is both exceptionally well researched as well as entertaining.

17:30 Michael: "yeah, i got one right!" Chimp: "pathetic"

I love how professor Matsuzawa always looks so happy to be there and always so fascinated buy the chimpanzees even after working with them for years

No one: Dr. Matsusawa: "Look at monkey :D"

Professor Matsuzawa is everything!! 🤗☺️💗🙌🪷 The banter between you both was so cute to watch 🫶

This is something I was waiting long time Brilliant thanks Micheal

"No explanation to Ai, no explanation to Michael." The professor is ruthless and I love it.

Memory is sacrificed for language just as vsauces channel is sacrificed for youtube red

Great series. Keep them coming. Sponsor this channel.

Dr Matsuzawa = Wonderful, inspirational human being.

"The ability to speak does not make you intelligent" - Qui gon jinn

I love how after decades of working with chimpanzees, he still does it with enthusiasm and even excitement.

Dope show❗giving up some precise short term memory for imagination and future outlooks think is a good bargain Crazy how nature developed react and reactions that play out

This is fascinating. I *think* I've heard research that 9 digits, in order, is just about the human cognitive limit! I'm always interested in matters of the brain & mind, especially as regarding every branch and limb of the human family tree. I taught kids on the dyslexia spectrum for almost 2 decades. One of the programs was for students who could *read,* had age-appropriate or better *vocabulary* ...but could not recall the gestalt of the anything they tried to study for, enjoy, or learn. Our idea was to have them to look at pictures and, in a series of different descriptive levels, report what they saw. Then we'd do blind confirmations, then they could check, and so on. The next stage was for them to create a picture in their minds of each sentence we read ("What do those words make you picture?"), then rely on the images to answer questions. (In this way we developed the strength in each side of the brain so that--very roughly speaking--the whole brain was flowing through information quickly without running into snags & stresses like studying for two weeks and passing a test but immediately forgetting everything, or failing.) My point being--our students had pretty much all been born into a rich culture of language and while most may have had nerves around writing, talking was not usually an issue. The opposite of the chimps... However once they began "seeing pictures," their concept imagery just went up and up. I used to wonder, as I taught, about people on the savanna coming back to the group with reports of dangerous animals, game, storms...

I’m just as impressed that they know the order of the numbers. I imagine it was harder for them to figure that out than it is to memorize their positions on the screen

the only good youtube red show honestly

Mr Metsuzawa is an absolute genius and pioneer to discover such memory capability and create such an experiment Brilliant man!

Excellent research Mr. Tetsuro Matsuzawa.

My psychology class was canceled today, and we were all told to review an episode of mindfield instead. Nice

I love how the professor says, “You took a long long time, many seconds.” Michael: “it takes a long time to remember nine digits” Professor: “and fail” Professor: “Good boy”

This series is making my lil psychology obsessed heart so happy

Surviving in the wild, i think that (as professor matsuzawa said) imagination was our most powerful weapon. We could suppose glance at some random bush, and even if we can't exactly know how many enemies there are, we could estimate! It doesn't have to precise, but it still has a good use. I loved this video very much. I also think knowing and preserving other species, not just chimpanzees, is key to realizing what morality, and human consciousness is. Thanks michael!

I’m sad Vsauce is all KZfaq Premium now 😔

Dr. Matsuzawa seems like the nicest guy! You can see just how much he’s passionate about what he does, and how he cares for these animals

Excellent work by Michal😍We need another season of Mind Field😍

The end was very beautiful made me cry they the Dr and monkey been working together for so many years. G Grew old together.

If chimps have great short term memory giving them the ability to make quick decisions, I wonder what they'd be like playing videogames

The only reason I would ever get KZfaq Red is to watch this show

I can’t believe it took this long to find this channel. I regularly have my mind blown

It's amazing to understand what you said... The first time I had watched it and I didn't understand it very well. Thanks

So basically the answer to "why did I forget what I was gonna say?" Is "because you can speak"

15:58 Ayumu's new girl: Aren't you participating in the Professor's test today? Ayumu: Nah! Screw that test. I prefer spending time with you. Ayumu's new girl: Awww

This is really interesting. I need to read more of this

i loved this content..more like this please

From here forth, I choose to believe my terrible working memory can be attributed to my fairly decent language-related skills. Thanks, Michael, for helping me feel better about myself

The Japanese psychologist is so sweet...

I think I know where this video is going. I've learned that the secret to speedreading is the elimination of subvocalization, but it's engrained in us from an early age. This task requires recognizing numbers purely visually which becomes harder after a lifetime of sounding out words and numbers in your mind.

Amazing!! Best thing on KZfaq!

19:46 "So you recognize that you cannot do just like Ayumu. It's impossible." "Yeah, impossible." It would be funny if the professor actually beats the game afterward.

I really enjoy that the chimps participate voluntarily, and may enter or leave the facility as they wish.

Thank you for everything ❤️

Wow, your channel is amazing!!

key word: sharing lucky this is the free episode

*at michael's wedding* I do! or do I?

Verr Coo I’m always skeptical but you nerd-nailed it

I wish there were a way to scan individuals brains, and be able to differentiate between the different processing areas to see their scale and position. Imagine how cool it would be to be able to essentially get the hardware specs on your own brain. It would really help a lot of us that struggle to define our strengths and weaknesses, and so have difficulty overcoming or working around them.

I miss the regular videos so much.

22:05 how this video ends with the prof's chimp voice is so amazing

Aww, the end is so adorable and sweet. 🖤

Keep up the great work!

Looks like Michael is getting kicked out of the trees 250k years after his ancestors.

The only KZfaq Red series worth watching

This might be my favorite episode yet

I'm late to this video, but the mere fact we have to know this information is crazy. It's the itch you can never get rid of, the inquiries the human mind makes.

We were not so strong, so we got kicked out from the forest. 1 million years later: Be careful who you make fun of in middle school.

The Japanese man's voice is so calm, just like the old wise character in cartoon

Muito legal !! YT enfim recomendando videos bons de vrdd...

These is a brilliant very interesting documentary

Michael finally remembered his main account password.

No instructions to aai so no instructions to Michel. Boss

Evolution is an extraordinary phenomenon, blows my mind

I don't talk to other humans, but I always remember where my car is parked.

Distinguished professor at the primate advanced study institute and his first quote you decided to edit in was: "look at monkeyysss". I love you

I respect the hustle but miss your free vids :'(

Alright, right from the start I’m hooked. That opening is Soo good. lol

Wow. The growing pains of evolution (great title for an article ok this topic btw. Maybe I will write it). Being forced into the open plains, and into danger was a big reason for the evolution of intelligence. Challenges often beget efficient solutions.

I read in a scientific article that our brain can quickly count a maximum of 3 elements in a set. after which the concept becomes "many" and we can no longer say precisely how many elements this set is made up of. In fact, Michael always manages to identify three elements but then gets lost

Michael: Ai, you having fun? Ai: *punches wall*

We contextualise things and that takes time to do. (Literally as he says why).

I think it makes sense, we can write and talk and look up whatever we need to remember, but for a creature that lives in the wild who can write stuff down or look stuff up, it would definitely be beneficial to have photographic memory, the other part makes sense too because memory for complex language would take up a lot of space on its own, kinda like the same thing in a way