Researchers studied baboons, including this one, and found that with training, they could distinguish real four-letter English words from four letters that weren't a word.
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New research shows that first-graders and baboons have at least one thing in common: Both can tell the difference between actual written words and random sequences of letters. This finding challenges some conventional ideas about what goes on in the human brain when we read.
The new research appears in the journal Science.
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