Artists who paint with their feet can do amazing things on canvas, but what's going on in their brains is just as impressive. The human brain includes a very detailed and organized map of the body, ...

Tom Yendell and Peter Longstaff are good at thinking on their feet. They have to be: Both were born without arms. But both still became painters, thanks to the extraordinary dexterity of their toes.

Scientists have long known that humans have unique neural “hand maps,” or regions of the brain tasked with processing sensations experienced by each of the five fingers. These patterns vary depending ...

Ultra high-res brain scanning has revealed clear maps of individual toes in two foot painters, born without either arm. While these organised toe maps are not found in typically developed humans, they ...