Orangutan able to guess a taste without sampling it, just like us
Friday, August 12, 2016 - 08:01
in Psychology & Sociology
Without having tasted a new juice mix before, an orangutan in a Swedish zoo has enough sense to know whether it will taste nice or not based on how he recombined relevant memories from the past. Only humans were thought to have this ability of affective forecasting, in which prior experiences are used to conjure up mental pictures about totally new situations.