AUTHOR=Lafay Anne , Thevenot Catherine , Castel Caroline , Fayol Michel TITLE=The role of fingers in number processing in young children JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=4 YEAR=2013 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00488 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00488 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between finger counting and numerical processing in 4–7-year-old children. Children were assessed on a variety of numerical tasks and we examined the correlations between their rates of success and their frequency of finger use in a counting task. We showed that children's performance on finger pattern comparison and identification tasks did not correlate with the frequency of finger use. However, this last variable correlated with the percentages of correct responses in an enumeration task (i.e., Give-