Animals remember things by either remembering an object's features or by remembering its location. By performing some memory experiments, scientists have found that apes tend to employ the place-based strategy as do one-year-old babies. This has led them to conclude that there is a definite similarity in the structure and cognitive processes of the brain of an ape and that of a human. However, human babies tend to switch to a feature-based strategy of remembering things as they grow older and depict signs of doing so at as early as three years of age.

 

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