Anne G. E. Collins is in the Department of Psychology and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94712, USA. Consider a budding cook who, ...

Violinists, surgeons and gamers can benefit from physical exercise both before and after practicing their new skills. The same holds true for anyone seeking to improve their fine motor skills.

Remember this? If you’re a Gen X’er like me, you probably do. And yes, while you were shoving those little yellow shapes into the Tupperware ball, you were practicing fine motor skills. When I was ...