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- Their typical gait is wide and lumbering with their arms out, reaching for your brains. There are three main areas in the brain that control movement: the cortico-motor area, basal ganglia and the cerebellum. Damage to the cerebellum has the most visually obvious effect on a zombie’s walk.
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Nov 15, 2020 · Most obvious is the way zombies move. Their typical gait is wide and lumbering with their arms out, reaching for your brains. There are three main areas in the brain that control movement: the cortico-motor area, basal ganglia and the cerebellum. Damage to the cerebellum has the most visually obvious effect on a zombie’s walk.
Oct 30, 2014 · For these reasons we argue that the cluster of symptoms seen in zombies, the wide stance, lumbering walk, lack of freezing, ease in general planning and execution of actions, reflects a pattern...
- Timothy Verstynen
- Insatiable Hunger
- Visual Recognition
- Movement
- Reactive-Impulsive Aggression
It’s a safe bet that what a zombie is feeling is hungry. All zombies do is eat, and it doesn’t seem to matter if they’ve already consumed half the town — they still want more. This ravenousness isn’t quite normal, and the hypothalamus could be to blame. This part of the brain is responsible for regulating metabolic processes and other basic functio...
Another recognizable zombie issue is just that, recognition. If a friend or family member is turned into a zombie, it’s a pretty safe bet they won’t recognize or care who you are afterward. All they see is a human they can eat; they will not see a sister, brother, friend, or loved one. This lack of recognition resembles a creepy psychiatric disorde...
If a person is asked to imitate a zombie, one of the key components to the performance is movement. The slow, lumbering, and arms aloft walking may have been abandoned for some modern interpretations of zombies (looking at youThe Walking Dead), but classic zombies all moved in a pretty similar way. Motion is a complex thing to study and attribute t...
Certainly the most noticeable thing about a zombie is the fact that they want to kill you. And they aren’t going about it in a rational, calm way. This type of mindless violence was described by neuroscientist and Carnegie Mellon professor Timothy Verstynen as reactive-impulsive aggression. Verstynen, who co-authored Do Zombies Dream of Undead Shee...
Oct 30, 2013 · Zombies may have impaired brain function in many ways, but they do have a razor-sharp sense of smell — at least when it comes to sniffing out living human flesh.
Feb 9, 2022 · When the zombies ruthlessly hunt people, they walk with a specific gait, wide-legged and lumbering, thanks to spinocerebellar ataxia. This movement disorder, caused by damage and atrophy in the...
- Meghan Holohan
- 4 min
A fresh, thought-provoking and wide-ranging study of how mankind uses its hands Why do zombies walk with their arms outstretched? How can newborn babies grip an adult finger tightly enough to dangle unsupported from it? And why is everyone constantly texting, tapping and scrolling?
Why do zombies walk with their hands out? What connects prayer beads with iPhones? Journey down the psychoanalytic rabbit hole to discover the strange and fascinating secrets of what our hands really say about us...
