Archaeologists have long linked ancient tool use to the beginning of human history. Homo habilis, the theory goes, was the "handy man" who used tools and served as the intermediary species between the ...

Prof David Kerr breaks down a study comparing dexterity across hospital staff, revealing how surgeons and physicians stack up.

Manual dexterity is a vital motor skill associated with the normal development of the neural and motor systems and demonstrates their coordination. Children who show deficits in this skill require ...

A century and a half ago, Frederick Engels, in an unpublished 1876 essay titled, The Part Played by Labor in the Transition From Ape to Man (International Publishers 1950), identified the evolution of ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Among the many harmful effects of aging, a decline in hand dexterity can lead to difficulties in the performance of daily activities, such as writing, cooking, gardening, craftwork, and ...

Surgeons beat out other hospital staff when it came to a "buzz wire" dexterity game, but they also were more likely to swear while playing, researchers found. A far larger proportion of surgeons ...

Performance on a manual dexterity test can act as an objective behavior marker that can aid in detecting the prodromal stage of patients with Parkinson disease. Performance on a manual dexterity test ...

RECENT research to discover suitable tests of manual dexterity has concentrated upon two kinds, the sample or ‘trade’ test, and the ‘analytic’ test. The first kind explains itself; the second attempts ...

Saied Froghi, right, with his brother Farid Froghi, a surgery research fellow, who joked "all those years of gaming paid off" Trainee surgeon Saied Froghi played video games like Age of Empires and ...