Life In The 8-Finger World. Aside from the number of fingers belonging to the median human, there's nothing particularly special about ten. We can use any whole number larger than one as a base ...

This finger-representation area was, according to their study, also engaged to a greater extent with more complex problems that involved higher numbers and more manipulation.

Counting on fingers really does help youngsters improve their maths skills, according to a new study. The research is the first to show that children's performance in arithmetic can show a "huge ...