Nature or Nurture in finger counting: a review on the determinants of the direction of number-finger mapping

The spontaneous use of finger counting has been for long recognised as critical to the acquisition of number skills. Recently, the great interest on space-number associations shifted attention to the practice of finger counting itself, and specifically, to its spatial components. Besides general cro...

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Main Authors: Paola ePrevitali, Luca eRinaldi, Luisa eGirelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00363/full