How to pronounce “macduff” in English

Oberon and MacDuff got almost nothing right from the lists where they were given hints.

It was done on two individuals named Oberon and MacDuff, who happened to be rhesus macaques, monkeys, who were trained to memorize lists in order -- lists of images that they had

So the kind of testing that Oberon and MacDuff were doing, when they had lists with no hints even though they were struggling, it was forcing them to attempt to generate an answer.

In certain cases, Oberon and MacDuff automatically got hints on the order of the images so they knew what to pick next.

Again, just another sense of the scale of the space, interior space, and the poor, dead Macduff.

And so over several days of training and hundreds of trials on each of these different sets of lists, Oberon and MacDuff started performing well on the lists where they got hints.

And for the lists where they got no hints, all of a sudden Oberon got about 3/4 of them right and MacDuff, who was generally not as good, got about half of them right.