" Using mechanical tools improves our language skills, study finds" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/11/211111154244.htm

This makes sense because language planning incorporates motor skills planning in the cerebellum. The multiple steps needed to plan language correlate with the complex steps needed to use tools. Likewise, math ability is correlated somewhat with motor skill planning, too.

What is interesting is this relates to fluency in listening to complicated syntax.

" In 2019, Inserm researcher Claudio Brozzoli in collaboration with CNRS researcher Alice C. Roy and their team had shown that individuals who are particularly proficient in the use of tools were also generally better at handling the finer points of Swedish syntax. "

They repeated the experiment with pliers and French syntax. No, this experiment wasn't in a dentist's office.

" The participants were asked to complete several tests consisting of motor training using 30 cm-long pliers and syntax exercises in French. This enabled the scientists to identify the brain networks specific to each task, but also common to both tasks.

They discovered for the first time that the handling of the tool and the syntax exercises produced brain activations in common areas, with the same spatial distribution, in a region called the "basal ganglia.""

Being handy indeed makes you more silver-tongued.

Cooking also is a great exercise in cognition and motor skills planning.