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Counting from left to right feels ‘natural’ – but new research shows our brains count faster from bottom to top

  • Written by: Luke Greenacre, Senior lecturer in marketing, Monash University
Counting from left to right feels ‘natural’ – but new research shows our brains count faster from bottom to topGayatri Malhotra / Unsplash

When asked to write the numbers from one to ten in a sequence, how do you order them? Horizontally? Vertically? Left to right? Top to bottom? Would you place them randomly?

It has been often been assumed, and taught in schools in Western countries, that the “correct” ordering of numbers is from left to right...

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